Future of desktop computer

[Stoff]

On 02/02/2017 at 7:44 PM, shampoo said:

I guess case and point. Tablet PC start to have thunderbolt 3 ports. Dave Lee made a video where he hooks up an eGPU to a tablet. Since the output of the graphics card was on an external monitor, performance losses were around 10~15%.

[superbike81]

As a couple other people have already said, cloud computing will cover the needs of the vast majority of people, even most gamers. Internet speeds are increasing in more areas every year and services like AWS and Azure are becoming more affordable and more powerful.

 

In the future I see us only really needing to purchase monitors. The monitor can have enough hardware built in to function as a zero-client that connects to cloud computing and gaming services. Buy the monitor,  keyboard, and mouse of your choice and you'll be done. 

[ProjectBox153]

5 minutes ago, superbike81 said:

As a couple other people have already said, cloud computing will cover the needs of the vast majority of people, even most gamers. Internet speeds are increasing in more areas every year and services like AWS and Azure are becoming more affordable and more powerful.

 

In the future I see us only really needing to purchase monitors. The monitor can have enough hardware built in to function as a zero-client that connects to cloud computing and gaming services. Buy the monitor,  keyboard, and mouse of your choice and you'll be done. 

A monitor with a thin-client built in, that sounds a lot like how people can reuse old systems, such as iMacs.

[superbike81]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

A monitor with a thin-client built in, that sounds a lot like how people can reuse old systems, such as iMacs.

Yeah, that could be a solution for those who need/want to use their existing monitor without client capabilities.