the death of the pc

[tastegw]

sadly, its coming sooner than later, ...

with all the smart phones and hand held tablets getting smarter and smarter with more and more uses from social media to simple/mid level gaming, all the way over to home security and other real world applications.

Not to mention the fact that really good computer games are becoming more and more rare (it seems to me anyways).

I am not sure I will build another pc after this one dies in a few years give or take.

I have not needed to use my cd/dvd/blue ray driver in nearly a year now, in fact, its not even installed in my rig. There is no reason for me to put it back in, if i need to buy any programs or watch any movies, i simply download it.

I guess I would welcome this death if......the raw power is on the other side of the fence. So until somebody tosses me a 24" 4k+ tablet for less than two grand that has the power to not only blow the doors off the latest console ports in performance and specs, but also gives me that flexibility I need that a PC offers, such as video and photo editing software, net surfing with whatever browser i choose and the ability to change OS at any time without penalty.....I will be saving up for that headstone for when the time comes to bury my pc six feet deep.

 

[Toothless]

Pffff I'll take my desktop apart and display all the parts on a shelf when it dies.

 

[the54thvoid]

Pffff I'll take my desktop apart and display all the parts on a shelf when it dies.

Hell, I use a test bench, so my wares are always on display. No rude jokes please!

And death of the PC? Ever heard of virtual reality? We have a while yet before handhelds pack enough power and cooling for that.

 

[RCoon]

smart phones and hand held tablets getting smarter and smarter

And throttling to kingdom come, because unsurprisingly, you can't cool two quad cores @ 2.2Ghz with a plastic phone case and the palm of your hand.

PC will never die, assuming you mean PC as in "personal computer". Steam and LoL have so many million concurrent users per day there will always be a PC requirement.

As a writer myself, I could never use anything but a keyboard. Ever tried writing a novel on a smartphone/tablet? I have, during a 2 hour train journey. It didn't work.

EDIT: Smartphones/tablets are not powerful enough to:

• photoshop
• edit videos professionally
• render videos quick enough
• type without smashing the screen in in a fit of rage because goddamn autocorrect
• design games

 

[natr0n]

PC will not die. All the game consoles now are basically PC's.

If you think about it console industry will keep the PC alive for years, as they no longer design custom chips.


Also , how will someone unlock a phone without using a pc...

 

[AphexDreamer]

Mobile gaming isn't going to replace PC gaming, they will simply coexist. Most people own a phone and a PC, they are not mutually exclusive.

 

[Jborg]

My dads still running a single core AMD processor from like 10 years ago and it still does everything he needs.

Star Wars Galatic Battlegrounds for the win.



Actually I'm in the process of building a newer rig for him to basically show my appreciation for him building me my 1st computer when I was like 8 or 9 years old.

PC gaming 4 life

I don't see pc's going anywhere Soon

 

[alucasa]

I'd say death of smartphone instead of PC. The phones are getting bigger and bigger. I think the biggest ones are already as big as 1980's relic phones.

 

[64K]

I don't see PCs dying. Sales have fallen but not over a cliff. Who knows what we may have available to us for productivity and entertainment in 10 or 20 years but in the near future I can't see PCs dying. I've been hearing about PCs dying for years now just like I hear about PC gaming dying for even longer and yet PC game sales keep increasing. Three days ago Steam set a new record for concurrent players at 9.5 million.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/steam...-5-million-steam-users-online-simultaneously/

 

[INSTG8R]

Tablet are on the downturn, PC are on the upswing period...

 

[micropage7]

i think not in short period
tablet or phone, yes it has better power but it has some limitation too: like the screen, the apps and the main limitation is the point where it made for communication, easy gaming

simple example although phone cam now getting better for serious picture and quality you gonna take SLR

laptop is smaller and compact version of desktop pc where you can bring it anywhere, but since it has limited space the heat could be a problem and if you chase the faster processor you need to pay more than build a pc


why now handheld stuff is up coz today many people want a simple and easy stuff, in phone you gonna get all in one, call, message, browser, game etc

 

[FordGT90Concept]

These predictions are as accurate as doomsayers predicting the end of the world. Last time I checked, the computer industry is still making billions of dollars and the world is still firmly under my feet.

 

[peche]

And throttling to kingdom come, because unsurprisingly, you can't cool two quad cores @ 2.2Ghz with a plastic phone case and the palm of your hand.

PC will never die, assuming you mean PC as in "personal computer". Steam and LoL have so many million concurrent users per day there will always be a PC requirement.

As a writer myself, I could never use anything but a keyboard. Ever tried writing a novel on a smartphone/tablet? I have, during a 2 hour train journey. It didn't work.

EDIT: Smartphones/tablets are not powerful enough to:

• photoshop
• edit videos professionally
• render videos quick enough
• type without smashing the screen in in a fit of rage because goddamn autocorrect
• design games

excellent words @RCoon
that’s the unbreakable truth…. PC is almost necessary for several things, also tables, cell phones and more are designed, tested and make with a computer basically,

PC will not die. All the game consoles now are basically PC's.

If you think about it console industry will keep the PC alive for years, as they no longer design custom chips.


Also , how will someone unlock a phone without using a pc...

another great point in the conversation,

My dads still running a single core AMD processor from like 10 years ago and it still does everything he needs.

Star Wars Galatic Battlegrounds for the win.



Actually I'm in the process of building a newer rig for him to basically show my appreciation for him building me my 1st computer when I was like 8 or 9 years old.

PC gaming 4 life

I don't see pc's going anywhere Soon

I know people that still uses a pentium4 for several works, also as a home server for data storage and more

 

[Bill_Bright]

PC sales are definitely declining and will continue to decline due to many moving to handhelds, but I agree, like Rock n Roll, the PC will remain forever.

Not to mention the fact that really good computer games are becoming more and more rare (it seems to me anyways).

That's a very narrow vision. Gaming is no where near the primary use for PCs.

I will stop using PCs when they pry my full-sized keyboard, mouse, two 22" widescreen monitors and my 5.1 surround sound speakers from my cold, dead hands! And I'm not a gamer!

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

stop lying to yourself sheeple, pc gaming is dead. Less people play WoW than ever before and even less are on steam. Xbox one is thriving with its 60 fps and 1080p

 

[erocker]

Okay...

 

[MxPhenom 216]

ohhh dear here we go.

 

[qubit]

@tastegw Don't worry, as everyone else on here is saying, the PC will never die. The simple reason is the sheer processing power (CPU and GPU) storage and the large, hi res monitors that it offers which allows it to do things you could never do on a little mobile device.

Also, the PC is rising again for gaming, as more and more console ports are now done properly to fully exploit the PCs capabilities.

GTA V is just one great example of this, with its fantastic graphics. Rockstar would not spend all this development time, effort and especially money, if the PC platform was dying.

Trust us, the PC is going nowhere.

 

[Bill_Bright]

stop lying to yourself sheeple, pc gaming is dead.

Wow!

Who's lying to whom? Do your homework dude! While console gaming is climbing at a faster rate, PC gaming is hardly dying.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/278181/video-games-revenue-worldwide-from-2012-to-2015-by-source/

There are lots more sources that say the same thing but I assume (hope) you know who Bing Google is, and hopefully can read charts.

 

[Easy Rhino]

And throttling to kingdom come, because unsurprisingly, you can't cool two quad cores @ 2.2Ghz with a plastic phone case and the palm of your hand.

PC will never die, assuming you mean PC as in "personal computer". Steam and LoL have so many million concurrent users per day there will always be a PC requirement.

As a writer myself, I could never use anything but a keyboard. Ever tried writing a novel on a smartphone/tablet? I have, during a 2 hour train journey. It didn't work.

EDIT: Smartphones/tablets are not powerful enough to:

• photoshop
• edit videos professionally
• render videos quick enough
• type without smashing the screen in in a fit of rage because goddamn autocorrect
• design games

I don't disagree with you completely. But more and more of those applications are being turned into web services. You won't need a PC, just a monitor/keyboard/mouse and an inter net connection. The more ubiquitous the cloud gets the more SaaS will stand out as the economical route. Work stations will also turn into terminal services as more DaaS technology improves leading to video games as a service. You can buy your games digitally and store them in the cloud and play them on demand over a fiber cable at 4K with less than 10ms lag. It is coming.

 

[Moofachuka]

PC will always have better graphics than phones/handhelds. So PC won't die... and Steam, and PC master race... maybe when Gabe dies PC will die

 

[rtwjunkie]

I can't help but wonder if the OP is trolling....

But on the off-chance they are not, regular, normal prebuilt PC's are continually falling in sales. Custom-built and self-built PC's numbers are not falling. Hell, even alot of people who buy a basic PC get the urge to do something more with it and improve it, whether it be buying more RAM or a hefty GPU.

Which really good computer games are becoming rarer and rarer? We've never had more variety or sheer numbers of games than now! Sure there's some crap ones, but a HELLuva lot of good games too! Have you checked any of the actual numbers of gamers? PC gaming is actually at its strongest numbers ever compared to consoles. Last I saw it was around 50-50 split. So much for predictions. And the consoles now being cheap(ish) PC's only served to validate PC's as a viable gaming platform. How do you think console game makers make games? Not on consoles.

And alot of the things that @RCoon mentions, such as actual writing, or video editing or professional photo editing can only be done well on a PC. Just because we get smartphones and tablets doesn't mean we replace the PC. They supplement the PC. I'd wager that a large percentage of this TPU community here, which lives and breathes PC, also has smartphones and tablets. They all have their place. Sometimes we use them WHILE we are on the PC, increasing our multitasking capabilities.

 

[BiggieShady]

Uh oh, since PC died already couple of times due to mobile tech, it should be resurrected first. Or at least should be considered undead if not immortal

 

[Frick]

It won't die anytime soon, but it will be relegated to workstations and gaming, so I am assuming it will, in the say coming 5 years, be more expensive than it is now. Those OEM desktops makes less and less sense.

When/if this takes off though, the market might shrink even further, because that technology would change our views on computing/digital info for real, and shrink the gap between digital and analog even further.

 

[jboydgolfer]

I disagree respectfully, but either way I'll STILL be building them, because honestly I personally take More pleasure from the build than the Use. It may be the lead paint diet I maintained as a child, but I'm Pretty certain it's the love that drives Me.