I'm sure they are lowering gpu power consumption when cpu power consumption is high and vice-versa, only engaging full power for brief periods, etc..
It will be interesting to see how Intel gets to that 7 watts.
For example, according to this Anandtech investigation the 45 watt TDP and 17 watt Ivy Bridge TDPs appear to be rated under different conditions.
45 watt i7 = TDP rated with both iGPU and CPU under turbo boost.
17 watt i5= TDP rated with iGPU at mostly full boost, but turbo on CPU is not active.
So I am wondering exactly how the 7 watt will be rated? (besides the obvious lower base clocks.)
Oh c'mon, Android is the future. Didn't you watch Startrek:TNG? Look how fast he, an Android himself, can type on a touchscreen with no errors:
I just wanted to point out I do own a tablet.No doubt the tablet experience outside of watching movies, viewing picture, and browsing can get frustrating in a hurry.
Right now I doubt ever. Its like trying to pick a bicycle and a car and unify the 2, while removing both the others.
There is no incentive to converge the 2.
Why would u want to run a stupid little app on a desktop and run a big app on and stupid little screen.
Why are people so obessesed with making everything do everything.
Want to know why you have GOLF CLUBS and not a GOLF CLUB?
The fact you still NEED a docking station actually proves his analogy to be correct about it being like combining a car and a bicycle and then needing either.All i need is a keyboard, a screen, a mouse, and a docking station with a 10TB HDD.
Which if we had 2020's technology today would be quite easy...
Intel has proven you can converge to massive reduce cost to manufacture while still increasing cost to buy with their integration of north-bridge into the CPU.Convergence is natural and unavoidable as computing power increases.
HOWEVER (and this is the big issue) manufacturers have ZERO incentive to to converge.
Physics would like to have a few words with you. also i3-2100 / 8800GT barely plays modern graphics engines, much less outputting future resolutions and graphics quality. You need to render photorealistic graphics in real time.Put my i3-2100 / 8800GT /128Gb SSD in my Galaxy Tab with a 10 hour battery.... and i don't need a PC.
No, his analogy is correct, its golf clubs not golf carts.I like your golf club analogy, but I think it's not the best analogy here. I think of it more like, would you want to have 18 different golf carts to play golf, having to switch between them just to access each hole, and not play a particular hole if you have the wrong golf cart?
Do you ever go on vacation, and fly somewhere in an airplane?
Wouldn't it be nice to just carry one single device, say a reasonably sized tablet with a keyboard/touchpad sleeve, and have everything at your fingertips?
As time progresses and new devices are created people get more different kinds of electronics. People buy a laptop, desktop, smartphone, tablet, and TV. They don't remove devices as "no longer needed" but buy additional devices because even though what they wanted could have been done by any of the other devices they own, it couldn't have been done as well.
I find this VERY misleading, it has already started (Asus Padphone) but i think you are missing the point.
I use my PC for League of Legends and Diablo3 and have a Galaxy Tab (the first one).
Put my i3-2100 / 8800GT /128Gb SSD in my Galaxy Tab with a 10 hour battery.... and i don't need a PC.
All i need is a keyboard, a screen, a mouse, and a docking station with a 10TB HDD.
Which if we had 2020's technology today would be quite easy...
Convergence is natural and unavoidable as computing power increases.
HOWEVER (and this is the big issue) manufacturers have ZERO incentive to to converge.
Why sell me a Hyper-Phone + DockingTablet + DockingDesktop
When you can sell me an iPhone, and iPad, and of course an iMac ?
Profit wise it makes absolutely no sense....
Why do you think someone would need both a laptop and a desktop?
Well now, this is a question of definitions. Using a laptop instead of a tower for your desktop setup is essentially going back to the dock question.I think in an ideal situation, you could buy a laptop and not need a desktop, because you'd just connect any peripherals to the laptop. You wouldn't need separate devices.
Or is there something I missing?
Me too.I still hope that some day, the idea of "the network is the computer" will come back.
Using an unsecured wifi hotspot is extremely insecure as well.The biggest hurdle, imho, is security. Sitting behind a device you don't own, and typing your passwords and getting access to your electronic documents is a liability. Viruses, trojans, eavesdropping, stealing documents, etc. But maybe there will be better solutions in the future. Public monitors everywhere, that can connect wirelessly to your private computing device, the size of a mobile phone. The mobile device could contain data. It could have encryption functionality and keys, to communicate with your data at home (or in the cloud). Add public wireless keyboards and mice, and you can have a complete desktop setup, while being away (from the office, or from home). I just don't wanna carry stuff with me, not even if it is only the size and weight of a tablet.
The fact you still NEED a docking station actually proves his analogy to be correct about it being like combining a car and a bicycle and then needing either.
Yet again the point is lost...Physics would like to have a few words with you. also i3-2100 / 8800GT barely plays modern graphics engines, much less outputting future resolutions and graphics quality. You need to render photorealistic graphics in real time.
D3 is a very non demanding game (as blizzard wanted it to work on older hardware to increase customer base).
Convergence is this :No, his analogy is correct, its golf clubs not golf carts.
As time progresses and new devices are created people get more different kinds of electronics. People buy a laptop, desktop, smartphone, tablet, and TV. They don't remove devices as "no longer needed" but buy additional devices because even though what they wanted could have been done by any of the other devices they own, it couldn't have been done as well.
I believe that as hardware gets better and better the end result will be Windows in all form factors.
No I wouldn't, it was well known there that such miniaturization is possible.If 15 years ago i would had told you "i'd love to have my Athlon64 and 9600Pro in my gameboy" you would have said "physics would like to have a word with you"...
No I wouldn't, it was well known there that such miniaturization is possible.
The problem is how small a nm is, we are literally running out of atoms.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=299974
So what do you do when you reach a nm figure so small that there are simply not enough atoms to build your structures? And remember due to imperfection in the construction a 1 atom wide connection is not going to be viable.
At that point the age of rapid scaling of speed would have ended. Advancement is still possible but it will take a long time and significant breakthroughs to achieve. Already new processes are costing several times what older ones did (modern plant is 6 billion dollars) and yet the resultant is a shrinking that improves density but not thermals (move from 32 to 22nm to intel according to intel's own claims, as well as anything below 45nm for their competitors)
Intel's tri-gate advacement is an example of the type of new improvements that would be needed, but its not like you can continue coming up with creative solutions like that at a breakneck pace... they will be made of course just not as fast as they used to.
There is certainly a good bit left in traditional advancement via shrinking. But not enough, I think, to get something capable of doing all of these at once:
1. high FPS (120Hz is already here and 3d cuts Hz at half so you need 240FPS to get the equivalent of that... but fine, lets say you are sticking with 2.5d 60Hz monitors)
2. future resolutions (4K) resolution
3. photo-realistic graphics (we already have the graphics engines... but it takes a massive server farm to render them in real time).
4. At a cellphone's form factor.
The above would eventually be reached but it will take longer due to having to come up with non traditional solutions (eg, no more shrinking nm).
If the hardware side of things does indeed stall for a while until another technology becomes viable there is always the possibility of massive software speed increases through Assembly programming, by hand. Difficult, tedious, and expensive, but much faster.