Where will PC tech go ?

[J4CKO]

With the Nvidia 3000 graphics cards coming out which is basically a supercomputer on its own, 32 GB of ram beceing common, SSD's being standard and multi core processors being the norm.

Where will things go in the next 20 years or so do you think ?

[Mr Pointy]

Nowhere. The average PC already has more computing capability than 99.99% of people need. From now on it's just a drive to make old stuff obsolete so they can sell new stuff.

[thebraketester]

The same as always.... more speed... more smaller... more battery life.... more storage....

[RDM]

Maybe moving more to photonics with gamers boasting about how little power their rigs consume.

[mikef]

I am writing this on a Raspberry Pi 4B - it has more compute power (and memory and storage) than early PCs I used that cost hundreds of pounds way back when. Research labs are building vast arrays of them for massively parallel applications. Maybe Apple moving to ARM cpus for laptops is indicative of where tech will go in the next few years

[anxious_ant]

Quantum computing - the next evolution for humanity.

[FourWheelDrift]

Ocular VR implants.

[anxious_ant]

FourWheelDrift said:

Ocular VR implants.

Neural implants is already a thing

[drmike37]

As long as windows gets more and more complex we’ll need faster and faster computers just so we can run Microsoft word.

[ging84]

cloud

[anonymous-user]

anxious_ant said:

Quantum computing - the next evolution for humanity.

I’m sure I heard that was going to be the next big thing back in 1999. That and organic computers.

I don’t know what any of these things mean though.

[Derek Smith]

DDg said:

Office filing systems will become more automated...

About a sixth of all electricity generated world wide goes towards servicing digital memory. I reckon there will need to be a different system for data recording, and fairly soon.

Someone suggested that PCs are faster than 99.9% of what most people need. Yet I've got a decent setup, with a Ryzen 3, 32gb RAM, decent enough video card, and ssd for the OS, yet it struggle to run a couple of the computer programmes I use. I'm going to upgrade to a Ryzen 9, 64gb RAM this year and will leave the opportunity for 128.

It will be great. Maybe for 18 mnths, but then the software will be changed and I'll have to consider what to do next.

I do a lot of video, images and 3D modelling and have just started on animation. I have 2 x 6TB HDDs in my computer and 12TB of additional storage, on HDD and cloud, soon to be networked on my soon to be 'old' computer.

Yet it is not 'future-proofed'. That's a computer sales myth.

[jamoor]

ging84 said:

cloud

This, with 5 g it should mean that you just need a dumb terminal

[Luke.]

Tron.

[Troubleatmill]

jamoor said:

ging84 said:

cloud

This, with 5 g it should mean that you just need a dumb terminal

Maybe - we could call it a Mainframe.

[anxious_ant]

El stovey said:

I’m sure I heard that was going to be the next big thing back in 1999. That and organic computers.

I don’t know what any of these things mean though.

The theory behind quantum computing has been around for years, we just don't have the tech to create a physical quantum computer yet. However we are getting close.

Quantum computing will truly be the next step where it will do things current computers just can't achieve, no matter how many cores and clock speeds you through at them.

The prospect is scary, yet tantalising.

Light reading here if you are interested : https://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computing-...

[Gary C]

Troubleatmill said:

jamoor said:

ging84 said:

cloud

This, with 5 g it should mean that you just need a dumb terminal

Maybe - we could call it a Mainframe.

Its always amused me. I started in the mainframe era with ICL office terminals. We even ran our simulator dynamic model remote from the simulator room itself so that it could run on the company mainframe over a leased line modem connection and the tutors having to book CPU time on it for training sessions.

Then remember the 'death' of that type of computing with the advent of a PC on my desk. Then to see the growth of client/server then server virtualisation giving bigger and bigger data centers and we are almost full circle with 'computer people' happy to be back in their own air conditioned locked rooms

Of course then there is ILO and they are all be kicked out again

[frisbee]

Skynet

[ging84]

Derek Smith said:

About a sixth of all electricity generated world wide goes towards servicing digital memory. I reckon there will need to be a different system for data recording, and fairly soon.

Where did you get such a crazy figure?
I've seen estimates of overall IT usage at 8-10%, but that is all usage, including manufacture.

[hyphen]

Derek Smith said:

About a sixth of all electricity generated world wide goes towards servicing digital memory. I reckon there will need to be a different system for data recording, and fairly soon.

Someone suggested that PCs are faster than 99.9% of what most people need. Yet I've got a decent setup, with a Ryzen 3, 32gb RAM, decent enough video card, and ssd for the OS, yet it struggle to run a couple of the computer programmes I use. I'm going to upgrade to a Ryzen 9, 64gb RAM this year and will leave the opportunity for 128.

It will be great. Maybe for 18 mnths, but then the software will be changed and I'll have to consider what to do next.

I do a lot of video, images and 3D modelling and have just started on animation. I have 2 x 6TB HDDs in my computer and 12TB of additional storage, on HDD and cloud, soon to be networked on my soon to be 'old' computer.

Yet it is not 'future-proofed'. That's a computer sales myth.

What spec machines do professional video, images and 3D modellers use day to day?
What spec does the software maker recommend?

And do you mean struggles as in takes more time to complete some tasks than you would prefer?