Google Says Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in 3 Years

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Do they have any clue how pleasant and enjoyable home computing can be? I do not have any need or desire to drag a computer with me wherever I go, especially when its functionality and power will never match what is possible in a home pc. And even if mobile computing was as powerful, I still would not game and enthusiast tweak on some tiny-ass device.

It was such a dumb misinformed statement to make...
 
Soon we will have a device that we will carry everywhere we go, everyone will have one to connect with the world while the world connects with the device at the same time. Meaning it will connect and use your monitor at work to do work on, your monitor at home to play on, and whatever else you could want to do with it, yes it plays crysis, yes it plays crysis on max settings. wireless. to whatever monitor you want. I'm saying all your computer power will on day be in your pocket, maybe in you so who needs a tower then. 3 years though? i think say...10 yrs if we're lucky
 
I guess after humans learned to ride horses, they never walked anymore. After trains, people shot all their horses and still didn't walk. After cars came, all the horses are dead, trains lie in scrap yards, human legs have now evolved into useless nubs. Now with flight, we had to stack the cars on top of the trains, which are on top of the fossilized horse skeletons....humans now look like weeble-wobbles. As you can see the history of transportion proves this Great Prophet of the Internets correct, or maybe there has been a braying jackass just like him spouting the same crap with different words everytime something new comes along.
 
I guess after humans learned to ride horses, they never walked anymore. After trains, people shot all their horses and still didn't walk. After cars came, all the horses are dead, trains lie in scrap yards, human legs have now evolved into useless nubs. Now with flight, we had to stack the cars on top of the trains, which are on top of the fossilized horse skeletons....humans now look like weeble-wobbles. As you can see the history of transportion proves this Great Prophet of the Internets correct, or maybe there has been a braying jackass just like him spouting the same crap with different words everytime something new comes along.
 
[citation][nom]Parsifal57[/nom]Google is wrong, there isn't the bandwidth available currently to support all the downloads that happen, let alone what would happen if everyone moved to the 'cloud'[/citation]

For that matter, the ISP's barely have enough bandwidth for desktop PCs in the U.S. Just look at what we pay for the speeds we get, look at Europe or Japan....and weep.
 
its so great to see everyone supporting the desktop! :) My Rig is my baby and i thought ppl were moving away from desktops. After reading these comments im 100% confident in the future of desktop relivance*.
 
"What an idiot" badaxe2 says.

I couldn't agree more. Except he's not just an idiot, he's a turd. And a twat. And ...
 
Google is just stupid and full of themselves. No professional that works on a computer is going to work in the cloud or on a non-installed OS with regular software. Any developer, designer, artist or people who work with specialized software systems are going to need dedicated PCs, fast hardware and a real OS.
 
I'm pretty sure for jobs in the workplace and at home will stay dominated by desktops but everywhere else will be more laptop oriented.
Gaming will stay dominated by the desktop
 
i think everyones missed what google said, they didnt say pcs will be gone in 3 years just they will be irrelevant. they'll still be around but they wont be as important as they once were.
 
ha ha ha...

is idiocy contagious? In three years I'll still have two computers, one server and still use a prepaid phone from T-Mobile. I'm sorry, I'll have two computers, one tablet, one server, and the prepaid phone.
 
WTF..Play Crysis 2 on a phone? LOL these people are making comments that are way off base.

I currently use my phone AS A DAMN PHONE and I use my PC as a PC. I have no need to be emailing people on a voice communication device...does it really make that much sense? These little girls with their "texting devices" (aka PHONES!!) and they can't put them down and they are non stop checking for OR sending messages...OMFG put in the persons number and call them and actually talk to them!!

If they keep adding apps and cell phone capabilites beyond what they are now we are going to have more major traffic problems than we have now...so tired of dodging these people as they swerve all over the road.
 
Oi... I'm gonna have to be against google for this call , that's WAY too bold of a statement. Desktops will always be around for allthat extra power.

That and man always has to have something better than they're neighbor.
 
In 3 years, we will all have sunglasses on all the time that have a little screen built in to receive data from our phones on what to display. Or they will be able to adjust polarization or shutter so everything will be 3D. Then we'll wear shirts that create electricity when we move and run our smart phones and high tech glasses and the sleeves will also have 1/2 a keyboard built into the upper arms of each. The entire world will be sitting with their arms crossed tapping their biceps and socially networking to the person sitting next to them and yet, never know they are physically sitting next to them. We'll all just rock to make power and LOL on our arms. Except the people with only 1 arm, but since they are allowed to carry switchblades legally, they will just stab us and take our Starbucks at will.

Yep, its much to late for me to be theorizing about the future, but it sure is fun isn't it?!
 
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