Will 2025 mark the End of PC's as we've known them?

[Joe]

....it had a good run at we knew it.

Billions perhaps Trillions made over the past 40-45 years.

However with the advent of AI I suspect our traditional PC will become little more than a voice box or dummy terminal for the whims of ChatGPT, Open AI, Siri & others.

Seems all good things must come to an end.

Any thoughts on this?

Care to weigh in?

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

There's always gamers and old folks, at least for a few more years

 

[Joe]

There's always gamers and old folks, at least for a few more years

Here's a vid sorta related that that @RANCIDMILKO ™ ®© ...

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Here's a vid sorta related that that @RANCIDMILKO ™ ®© ...

Yeah, but there's still a box

Like I said, still a few more years of big boxes with huge GPUs and whatnot

Everything will be integrated

But they'll be expensive if they want to compare with a 4080 in terms of power

 

[Joe]

Yeah, but there's still a box

Everything will be integrated

But they'll be expensive if they want to compare with a 4080 in terms of power

...like the Apple Silicon Macs?

Those are kinda sucky cuz Apple eliminated the user's ability to customize and upgrade their own desktops.

User just gets stuck with an ultra expensive box like a Mac Studio

If Apple is 'the future' then it's gonna suck. lol

 

[jack]

....it had a good run at we knew it.

Billions perhaps Trillions made over the past 40-45 years.

However with the advent of AI I suspect our traditional PC will become little more than a voice box or dummy terminal for the whims of ChatGPT, Open AI, Siri & others.

Seems all good things must come to an end.

Any thoughts on this?

Care to weigh in?

I just wrote an AI as a help tool for this coding project and you absolutely must have a desktop loaded and the equivalent of a gaming laptop to do this kind of stuff.

Computers should be useful until 2040 when civilization will then collapse anyway.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

But on the other hand, I still see a market for big boxes, because the good stuff will always come in big expensive packages

When you have a iGPU equivalent to the 4000 series from NVIVIA today, the 8000 series will be the beast taking 4 slots and pushing 1000 cfm of air per millisecond to keep it cool

 

[jack]

Here's a vid sorta related that that @RANCIDMILKO ™ ®© ...

I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X 8 core processor, 32 gig RAM, with a Radeon RX 5700 XT and a 2 TB HD, I'm all set for this lifetime.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X 8 core processor, 32 gig RAM, with a Radeon RX 5700 XT and a 2 TB HD, I'm all set for this lifetime.

A GPU from 7 years ago runs every game, most at maximum at full HD

I'm putting up two PCs for cousins this year, dollar is going crazy and it's only going to get worse

It's fun buying a bunch of parts, I still enjoy doing that, especially today, things work so much better and are so much faster than 20 years ago

 

[The Prowler]

I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X 8 core processor, 32 gig RAM, with a Radeon RX 5700 XT and a 2 TB HD, I'm all set for this lifetime.

Planning to die soon?

 

[jack]

Planning to die soon?

No, you?

 

[The Prowler]

No, you?

The you are going to be wrong about being all set for this lifetime.

 

[jack]

The you are going to be wrong about being all set for this lifetime.

Maybe...then I'll just buy whatever the state of the art setup becomes and roll with the changes.

 

[jack]

The you are going to be wrong about being all set for this lifetime.

 

[The Prowler]

Maybe...then I'll just buy whatever the state of the art setup becomes and roll with the changes.

Then why would you say that you are all set for this lifetime?

 

[jack]

Then why would you say that you are all set for this lifetime?

Because I live in the present moment so currently I am.

Come at me, bro.

 

[The Prowler]

I'm putting up two PCs for cousins this year, dollar is going crazy and it's only going to get worse

It's fun buying a bunch of parts, I still enjoy doing that, especially today, things work so much better and are so much faster than 20 years ago

My current gaming machine was cheaper as a whole than I could buy the parts...I just added a large SSD for more storage...

 

[Lily]

Yeah, but there's still a box

Like I said, still a few more years of big boxes with huge GPUs and whatnot

Everything will be integrated

But they'll be expensive if they want to compare with a 4080 in terms of power

I'm almost completely ignorant when it comes to computers, I've never been that interested.. What will everything be integrated into? What is the physical "thing" we'll be using instead of the devices that exist now?

 

[Joe]

My current gaming machine was cheaper as a whole than I could buy the parts...I just added a large SSD for more storage...

Does gaming activity wear out the GPU and the Internal parts of the computer faster @The Prowler?

BTW, I'm not a gamer nor do I enjoy using a computer for that kinda purpose.

Nothing wrong with it tho. I wasn't gonna be using it for that tho

I was thinking more for video editing or Graphic Design.

I was just wondering if gaming activity wears the computer out faster forcing it to be replaced earlier than if it wasn't being used for that purpose?

As you probably guessed, I have no real experience with gaming consels or PC's

 

[The Prowler]

I'm almost completely ignorant when it comes to computers, I've never been that interested.. What will everything be integrated into? What is the physical "thing" we'll be using instead of the devices that exist now?

There will be a little circuit board implanted into your forehead that will be interfaced directly to your brain (preferably), or will control other micro devices such as an imaging device that projects onto your retina, a micro speaker that will be placed into your middle ear, etc..

 

[The Prowler]

Does gaming activity wear out the GPU and the Internal parts of the computer faster @The Prowler?

GPU? Is it overheating? If not, then I would say "No, not in any significant way."

Storage hardware has a life expectancy that will shorten with increased use...

BTW, I'm not a gamer nor do I enjoy using a computer for that kinda purpose.

Oh, thanks for telling me.

Nothing wrong with it tho. I wasn't gonna be using it for that tho

Oh, I am glad that you do not disapprove.

Whew!

I was thinking more for video editing or Graphic Design.

I missed that the first 651 times you said it.

I was just wondering if gaming activity wears the computer out faster forcing it to be replaced earlier than if it wasn't being used for that purpose?

I think the vast majority (>99.99%) of computers will become obsolete before "wearing out".

As you probably guessed, I have no real experience with gaming consels or PC's

I was really wondering about that.

Thanks for telling me.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I'm almost completely ignorant when it comes to computers, I've never been that interested.. What will everything be integrated into? What is the physical "thing" we'll be using instead of the devices that exist now?

Those things that look like a huge box and you connect everything to it will start looking more like a box of tissues

 

[Lily]

Those things that look like a huge box and you connect everything to it (will start looking more like a

Like a panel? Kind of like our electrical panel? I know it's not exactly what you're saying...but it's a similar idea?

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

They'll go from this

to this

 

[Joe]

I can't really get into video games @The Prowler

I think the last one I played was on a Mac which was distributed on a free CD called 'Bloodbath'



It was a gory game, even back then .

A person would just tap on the keyboard or mouse endlessly shooting at these imaginary assailants.

It actually felt quite real despite the cheezy graphics

Same time, really quite mindless.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Like a panel? Kind of like our electrical panel? I know it's not exactly what you're saying...but it's a similar idea?

You know what a computer is, a desktop. It has a CPU, which is the part that does the computing

IF you want that machine to also be able to play the best games, you need something like this, a video card

But now they're putting what's inside those video cards inside the CPU, so you gonna need a lot less space you can truly have an amazing machine that plays games at great detail inside something the size of a walkman

 

[Joe]

They'll go from this

to this

In other words, the PC World will 'do an Apple'



You'll get a Big Metal Brick from now on

And the Next Brick will be greater than the last Brick.

Whadda joke, eh?

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

In other words, the PC World will 'do an Apple'



You'll get a Big Metal Brick from now on

They have to be brick metals because they need cooling

It's still gonna be a while until you can have fast machines that run cold enough to not need heatsinks and fans

 

[The Prowler]

They'll go from this

to this

I doubt that will happen in your lifetime....not for gaming machines.

Faster processing makes more heat which requires more cooling which can be done economically with....SPACE.

The cost/benefit will never be there...in other words, for them to make a gaming machine that small, it would cost a lot...and when a competitor makes one just as powerful, but 10 times the size...and it is 1/4 the price...people will buy it.

 

[Edgar Friendly]

I'd be all set with a Minisforum V3 and a docking station to plug monitor, keyboard, and mouse into. That'd do everything I need.