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

[The Question]

Yeah, I was just joking, getting an eGPU is almost always a bad deal

I would assume so, unless you're talking about hooking it up to a machine which has been engineered to use one from the get-go.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

I would assume so, unless you're talking about hooking it up to a machine which has been engineered to use one from the get-go.

And still, computer parts are cheap today.

 

[The Question]

And still, computer parts are cheap today.

In most brands other than HP, you'd be right -- but HP is absurdly obnoxious about incorporating proprietary components. In the case of this bargain basement bullshit on my desk, the motherboard.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

In most brands other than HP, you'd be right -- but HP is absurdly obnoxious about incorporating proprietary components. In the case of this bargain basement bullshit on my desk, the motherboard.

I don't even consider brand name desktops these days

I buy the parts I want, that's why my PCs last for a long time

Notebooks are a different matter

 

[LotusBud]

....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 don't quite understand. A PC, for me, is good for looking at things with a bigger screen, and for when I want to sit at a desk to work on the computer. I know youngsters like to do everything on their phones, but I just find that to not be conducive to serious work, or long sessions in which one needs a word program like Open Office or Microfuckehead |Word.

 

[The Prowler]

I don't quite understand. A PC, for me, is good for looking at things with a bigger screen, and for when I want to sit at a desk to work on the computer. I know youngsters like to do everything on their phones, but I just find that to not be conducive to serious work, or long sessions in which one needs a word program like Open Office or Microfuckehead |Word.

Optical interfacing is where it is at, you dinosaur.