We're getting close to the time when home machines will be fast enough for home users.
The biggest drain for home users is probably 3-D video games, and we're nearing the end of the road for that. In probably two generations of graphics cards and 3-D engines they'll be full models in full lighting instead of polygons and flat textures. At that point the home machines won't need much more power.
'Cell' is an interesting idea, putting chips in home appliances and things, so the power can be harnessed by whatever system needs it most at the time.
'Cell' is an interesting idea, putting chips in home appliances and things, so the power can be harnessed by whatever system needs it most at the time.
I don't really know what this 'cell' thing is, but i know if i had 10 devices in my house that all had some kind of internet/processing capabilities, that i certainly wouldn't need each to have a dedicated processor. i mean, writing this post uses what, a 1/100th of the gigahert on my emac? plus, most of the time it is just sitting here.
Messiahtosh I have a Performa 6400 you can have, It still works, got the nifty Monitor with the speakers. The problem is obsolescence, I mean even Children's software is hard to find for the beast, Graphics (I wont even comment on this part) and on and on...
My G4 now I wont give you that, But I'm once again happy with it after much upgrading and expense, Lets see a video card, Dual processor card upgrade, A USB2 PCI card (Darn Firewire drivers) new hard drive... Well that G4 400 got a little expensive....
As far as my New G5, Its just Sweet. But down the road, (a long road, I hope) perhaps that old phrase of Obsolescence will I'm sure will make the full circle of life.
You may ask why, well these are my tools, I use this stuff as a banker uses a pen... Heck that banker is using My pen...
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/me looks at other monitor and sees a 20 hour batch video encode in process.
The biggest drain for home users is probably 3-D video games, and we're nearing the end of the road for that. In probably two generations of graphics cards and 3-D engines they'll be full models in full lighting instead of polygons and flat textures. At that point the home machines won't need much more power.
'Cell' is an interesting idea, putting chips in home appliances and things, so the power can be harnessed by whatever system needs it most at the time.
Originally posted by bunge
'Cell' is an interesting idea, putting chips in home appliances and things, so the power can be harnessed by whatever system needs it most at the time.
I don't really know what this 'cell' thing is, but i know if i had 10 devices in my house that all had some kind of internet/processing capabilities, that i certainly wouldn't need each to have a dedicated processor. i mean, writing this post uses what, a 1/100th of the gigahert on my emac? plus, most of the time it is just sitting here.
My G4 now I wont give you that, But I'm once again happy with it after much upgrading and expense, Lets see a video card, Dual processor card upgrade, A USB2 PCI card (Darn Firewire drivers) new hard drive... Well that G4 400 got a little expensive....
As far as my New G5, Its just Sweet. But down the road, (a long road, I hope) perhaps that old phrase of Obsolescence will I'm sure will make the full circle of life.
You may ask why, well these are my tools, I use this stuff as a banker uses a pen... Heck that banker is using My pen...