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    Looking into the future of laptops..

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Mippoose, Mar 7, 2008.

  1. Mippoose

    Mippoose Notebook Deity

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    What do you expect to see in a laptop for around 2000 dollars in a good 2-3 year time?

    Or will things lag and we will still be using the 9 series?
     
    Mippoose, Mar 7, 2008
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    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    2-3 years, I'm pretty sure graphics cards will be starting to actually be integrated into the processor itself. Or something like that.
     
    Crimsonman, Mar 7, 2008
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    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    it depends, definitely not gaming tho. for anything else, my thinkpad still feel like a killer working station
     
    Nirvana, Mar 7, 2008
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  4. Tony_A

    Tony_A Notebook Evangelist

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    2-3 years is at least 2 generations past the 8XXX series of cores (real generations, not the re-named 9XXX stuff using 8XXX cores)
     
    Tony_A, Mar 7, 2008
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    Well I'd expect quad CPU cores to be commonplace. AMDs Fusion will be out by then, and I hope it proves to be as interesting as AMD claims it'll be, it does have some real potential to integrate decent graphics plus CPU on a single die, so possibly less power consumption and smaller for factor. But yeah, 4 core CPUs, as well as really powerful GPUs, we'll be into the 11 series GeForces by then.
     
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  6. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    maybe paper thin PCs
     
    dmacfour, Mar 7, 2008
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    Ragefull Notebook Enthusiast

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    We will have laptops that can summon you a 18 y old girl and perform a blowjob :D
    Oh sry it was meant to be 2-3 years not 15-20 :D
    Well i guess 4 cored processors will be common and 8gb ram with 1 tb winchester. Etc
    Rage
     
    Ragefull, Mar 7, 2008
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    Radical technology improvements in LED technology, further improvements in low power cpu's. I see the graphics power increased but I don't know if 3 years is enough time to shrink the most powerful GPU's into a small form factor.

    I was hoping over the next 5 years we'd start moving away from keyboards and windows.
     
    jb1007, Mar 7, 2008
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  9. Destiny

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    lol. bill or rather microsh** will never allow us to do it... ;)
     
    Destiny, Mar 7, 2008
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  10. P_Schneider

    P_Schneider Notebook Consultant

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    Lol, you can do that now, it's called craigslist :D
     
    P_Schneider, Mar 7, 2008
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    As the multiple cores in CPU's are a standard nowadays, I expect graphics cards will follow the same trend.
     
    lozanogo, Mar 7, 2008
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    I`m thinking titanium alloy chasis , super conductive heatsinks and VR module screens.
    Oh, and 200 GB of gpu memory, at 2048 bits.




    /BS
     
    eleron911, Mar 7, 2008
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    OLED is the way to go! :)

    [​IMG]

    I wonder what would be put in place of them?

    IMO optronics would be the future of computing. Imagine every processes are done by manipulation of photons, there'd be no more talk of 45nm, 10nm processors; RAM would be virtually non-existent as all data would be transferred and processed simultaneously. A single sheet, paper thin circuit board would be all there is to computer.
     
    Asdamine, Mar 7, 2008
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