how much will ivy bridge cost?

[blckgrffn]

You don't know a word about computing if the above comment has been written by you. PERIOD

Logical fallacy is logical fallacy.

You're begging for someone to come in here and provide a corner case which disproves your hypothesis, but I won't be that guy. I think you can come up with it on your own.

At least you're going two for two on the last two times you've posted in this thread.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I was in the same mindset as you, Mark, until I saw this:

I'm not sure how that's supposed to work, if the smartphone has a touch-screen, and the laptop docking station thingy has a screen and a touchpad. The phone does not have a visible cursor to move around.

 

[Grooveriding]

That's not true at all. Pretty soon almost all computers sold will be tablets and phones. Desktop pcs are dying. They will continue to have niche markets like rendering but for 99% of people, a quad core arm cortex at 4ghz with 16gb of ram will be plenty. We will have tablets that powerful within a few years as well. All you will need is a bluetooth keyboard and you will have a powerhouse pc in the palm of your hand.

Not seeing this at all, the best CPUs and GPUs available will always require a larger form factor to accommodate proper cooling and not be viable for tablet/smartphone use. Barring some sort of revolutionary shift in the way they function.

There will always be a market for those products, it may shrink or grow, but it will always be there.

 

[formulav8]

my motherboard can't handle 125w cpus apparently, plus I would never use that many cores. even 4 cores are too many for me.

There are 1 or 2 95watt x6's around 2.6ghz oem. Newegg had a nice $99 or so deal on a 2.6ghz 95w version a couple weeks back.

 

[formulav8]

Not seeing this at all, the best CPUs and GPUs available will always require a larger form factor to accommodate proper cooling and not be viable for tablet/smartphone use. Barring some sort of revolutionary shift in the way they function.

There will always be a market for those products, it may shrink or grow, but it will always be there.

It may always be there to some degree, but it is NOT a growing market in any real way. Its lappys and tablets from here on out. Dekstop are going the way of the dodo as the popular form factor.

 

[blckgrffn]

It may always be there to some degree, but it is NOT a growing market in any real way. Its lappys and tablets from here on out. Dekstop are going the way of the dodo as the popular form factor.

So long as they continue to be the "cheapest" platform they'll remain relevant. The biggest blow to the PC is the commonality of the $300 laptop/nettop, IMHO. With fusion/lowend SB making these computers finally "not suck", well, I would expect that they would really erode the lowend PC market.

 

[podspi]

I'm not sure how that's supposed to work, if the smartphone has a touch-screen, and the laptop docking station thingy has a screen and a touchpad. The phone does not have a visible cursor to move around.

The cursor is a thing of software. It can appear and disappear as needed :biggrin:

Also, the webtops as they are called often have entirely different interfaces. At the moment I hate the docks, because I want the phone completely enclosed (I feel like if you went somewhere with that thing, what is to stop somebody from just taking it off the back), but they're getting closer...