What will asus look like an a few years?

Well, I have been looking at all these new laptops coming out
(g51, g71 ect ect) and they all look really cool and I am amazed at their specs I haven't seen their prices but I know they are between 1000-2000 bucks I think. I bought the asus g50vt a1 at christmas for and it is a very good laptop but it is not quad core and it doesn't have the new and improved nvidia gpu in it. It cost around 1,600 bucks, that was 6 months ago, and now you can buy one of these new laptops for that price. I can't wait to see in a couple of years when I'm looking for a new laptop what kind of computers will be out.

What do you think the specs of the average priced (1000-2000 dollars) will be like in a couple of years.

I think it will be like

quad core cpu 3.0 +
gpu - well they might have a new generation of gpus by then

it's interesting how fast technology increases

 

Intel I7 Quad core processors... Intel Quad 2 will be the lower end standard... Core 2 duo high frequency will be in netbooks and the like... and we'll be on to DDR5 for laptops GPU possibly even higher

 

yeah but by that time, desktops would have s e xacore or octocore cpus.
the difference in price/performance ratio won't change much.

 

wow

I might just buy a tricked out desktop then
octocore

 

Na... Latops will continue to become the larger and larger focus... and more readily and easily upgradeable... in the future we will probably see shells like that of Desktops for laptops and allow people to build their own laptops... or just more accesable lol maybe I'm hoping for too much.... either way we are become more and more mobile every day... we don't Wifi entire cities just to sit at home on our desktops lol especially when you can get more than enough power out of some of the newer latpops

 

No one knows what the future holds... that's a good thing

 

I really REALLY hope that this is what the future will bring

You can upgrade your laptop whenever you want

THAT WOULD BE INSANE

 

I'm guessing it will look more like AW lol. Maybe GPUs in quad SLi/Xfire mode, plus versions of the i7 processors as Intel ditches the Core 2.

Upgrading a laptop would be really fantastic! Never have to grumble "I should've waited a bit longer for better parts".

 

No lol... I don't think Quad SLI will be in notebooks for the next 5 years at least lol... there really is no need since GPU's are released on a need basis... when tech advances they make a single GPU capable of handling the best current game or technologies... really no need ever unless Desktops become relatively obsolite due to their limited mobility... which will happen BTW

 

For Quad SLI, I think we'd need dual-core GPUs. Is there even enough place on a 15 or 17'' for 4 video cards?

 

No he's saying in the future... now lol NO WAY! But in the future if and when we can shrink the dies enough on the cards... but there will never ever be a point to put Quad Sli in a laptop! just like there is no point in putting Quad SLI in a Desktop!

 

Quad SLi no but Multi Core Graphics cards, and im not talking multi chip. Should be the way of things. Multi Core graphics wouldnt have the same issues as SLi and CrossFire, sucks that they have issues at all.

Its obvious single gpu's arent getting much faster, DX11 brings native multicore support, including to dx9/10 hardware. I doubt there will be much development of multi core dx10 hardware once its out though.

 

i7............4 cores+Hyperthread=8 cores (technically)

 

Wikipedia has an Intel roadmap until ~2012 (and I'm sure Intel's planned it further haha). 6-core desktop processors by Q4 2009, 8-core by 2010-2011 (consumer level). 2012 should see the Haswell architecture (22mm?) on desktops. Laptops usually lag behind by a bit, but not much longer than a year.

nVidia GPU's have new generations about once a year (discounting the 9xxx series which lasted maybe half a year).

I'm mostly excited for SSD technology to mature . And someone to start selling LED monitors without an obscene price tag.

 

I agree. I'm looking forward to large capacity SSD's that aren't too much more than traditional Hard drives currently.

8 cores would be nice though

 

See

ASUS AIRO

For details on how it will look in the future

 

With the elimination of FSB Intel should be able to start increasing upward (speed) instead of outward (more cores). Not that more cores won't come but let's start seeing the 4 & 5 Ghz procs.

 

Standardizing too much might start taking away from the uniqueness of the system.

 

there is already an octocore nehelem chip for servers. it wouldn't be long for cpus to become truely manycore. hell ps3's have 8core cpus with one core disabled.

edit: yes 8 physical cores, so 16 logical cores when you enable HT.

 

What is intels approach on this one, if its anything like AMD and their use of the HyperTransport Bus, its really no different then current technology anyways. There is still a front side bus but its not a single channel, hell things have been quad pumped since the pentium 4. Providing ways to move information faster and through multiple interfaces and calling it something different doesnt change what it is.

Besides intel has gone back to proving what amd did along time ago with the new i3 i5 and the NEW i7 not the old one. More work less frequency, the new cpu's will once again come out at a lower speed. Your wish for a 4 Ghz cpu will be met with a 3 Ghz cpu that does the same amount of work as the prior architecture at 4Ghz. So you will see the same trend we saw in the past.

Every kid on the block wants to own a insanely clocked cpu, even if it doesnt perform well.