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Location: Miami Beach, Fl
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Computers in 2005/2006
I was thinking the other day about how hardware technology is moving so fast ahead that it's clearly able to handle all the software thrown at it. Remember the days of the Pentium 166mhz, 233mhz, and so on...? Whenever the clock speed went up 200mhz you would buy a new PC. But now, the hardware has a significant lead on the software and the speeds and storage that computers will reach in 2005/2006 blow my mind. Right now a decent computer that'll run about $999 includes a P4 2.6 ghz, 512 megs of ram, 64 meg vid. card, and around a 100 gig HD. I remember paying $3,000 for a P3 600 mhz 128 meg, 8 mb vid card a couple years back... scary though, i'll never spend more than $1,200 on a computer. I'm just curious as to what you guys think a $999 PC's specs will be in the years 2005 thru 2006 will be.
My guess is this... CPU: Pentium 5 (5.2 ghz) or comparable AMD CPU Mem: 2 Gigs RD/DDR? Vid: 512 MB HD: 500 Gigs/1 Terabyte ... i dunno, maybe i'm being too optimistic, but i don't think it's too far off.
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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follow Moore's Law and you'll find that ou're not too far off the mark...
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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I'd say in 2005, a $999 computer will include a 3.2 GHz P4 with HT, 120-150 GB HDD, 512 MB of PC3200-PC4200 RAM, with possibly a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra. DVD burners definitely, floppy drives, on-board sound and LAN. I imagine the video will be on-board as well. -Lasereth
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Blood + Fire
Location: New Zealand
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512MB vid cards? I'm guessing 1024, but what I'm really into believing is that in time we won't need hardware to decode audio signals and to translate video images, it'll all be software (using hardware of course but just a mobo).
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Holy Knight of The Alliance
Location: Stormwind, The Eastern Kingdoms, Azeroth
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I think Las is right, especially talking about a $999 computer, those are pretty mid-price range now as far as computers go, and since 3.2 EE HT is the cock of the walk at the moment, aka the best Intel you can get, it should be finding its way into mid-range systems in about a little over 16 months. Same thing goes for the 5900, that'll be mid-to-low-range by the time 2005 rolls around.
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Crazy
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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2005/2006 i say 4 ghz cpu, 1gb of ram... and 160/250gb hdd's being the norm.
for what would be happening with graphics cards.. i dont know... that's an industry that seems to be changing pretty rapidly, and im not really sure what next version of directx/opengl is gonna be bringing. maybe something that's equivalent to running toy story at 1024x768 in real time ![]() |
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Quadrature Amplitude Modulator
Location: Denver
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However, I find Lasereth's prediction incredibly pessimistic. I'd better get more of a computer than that for $999 in 2005. I'd rather see faster CPU's than CPU's with higher clock frequencies. In 2005 I bet we will see mainstream CPU's produced with an 50 nanometer material process. That's not too optimistic, I think.
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Location: North of Mexico, South of Canada
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But there will always be the 3.5 floppy ![]()
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Modern Man
Location: West Michigan
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And yes you can boot from a USB drive. Personally I wish they would keep floppies. Its can be a pain in the ass if you are trying to diagnose some hardware problems and a PC doesn't have a floppy drive.
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