Intel Introduces Light Peak/Thunderbolt
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Centurion
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This technology has already been readily available to the consumer for a couple of years now: DLNA. Most TV's support it, but for some odd reason, this technology doesn't seem to get enough recognition
Although DLNA has been around or some years Apple were first to make it widely accessible and useful to consumers.
I only use external hard drives with FireWire and light peak does excite me. Full duplex and high throughput opens up possibilities for me to backup data very very fast. Disappointingly the bottle neck is slow hard drives. One would need to have SSDs on both ends to truly enjoy light peak. But Sony are using it the right way by bundling a high end laptop with a small break out box containing a blu ray drive and external graphics card. I hope this will take off and effectively kill the argument for a desktop computer.
jack
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i wouldn't say so
for nvidia it probably only takes 2-3 months to bring their high-end desktop cards(i am not talking about the Quadro series) to a laptop
and for the future we are definitely going to se the introduction of "cloud power", products like "On Live" show how it could be done, were you could play games like Rage easily on a mac book air
i would forecast desktop pc's to stick with professionals/companies(for CAD, rendering...). their death has already started....
Centurion
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Exactly, they won't inside a laptop, therefore you simply put a high-end graphics card into a break out box like Sony did because Light Peak has the similar bandwidth capacity as PCI Express. Here it is. Bluray, additional ports and a discrete graphics processor that's possible thanks to light peak. This will mean that people can buy a thin and light 12 inch laptop but at home or the office connect it to an external box and enjoy full graphics power, optical drives and more.
For all but music and film editing professionals, the desktop has been dead for some years. This is not year 2001. Laptop shipment eclipse those of desktops by a large margin. Laptops offer more than ample power to replace a desktop, the only weakness has been graphics power. Laptops cannot accommodate heat producing graphics processors and what Sony are on about is an excellent direction that I look forward to being adopted by more manufacturers next year.
Cashmere
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This kind of setup wont last long and is the same reason why notebook docking stations failed. Im not really a fan of Apple computers but that thunderbolt display works like a modern day docking station for your notebook, except that your docking station is built into the cinema display which is brilliant. Its a clutter-less layout and that is what everybody wants.
Even the days of Blu Ray and HD content on disc are limited. Streaming HD content off the web is already the norm, hence all modern TV's come built in with wi-fi and netflix apps preloaded. I read an interesting article the other day about how Sony's keeps showing a rise in the sales of the 3D blu ray's, but the reality is that the chunk of those sales are merely free bundled blu-rays whenever one buys a tv or a home theater. Sony is going to be oh-so screwed in a couple years. Their days of enforcing their proprietary formats/hardware on people are almost over.
Looking at the rate at which computational power is advancing (it doubles every 18 months). Intel's sandy bridge processors and now AMD's fusion APU's are the beginning of the end of dedicated graphics. By this time next year, Intel will have launched Ivy bridge processors (3rd Gen Core iX ) processors, and integrated processor graphics will be more then capable of handling GPU performance which many desire on their notebooks.
Centurion
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I have postponed my new computer purchase until Ivy Bridge. Benchmarks out so far are impressive but graphic wise the integrated GPU is better than than of Sandy Bridge...........but still poo for anyone looking to do any serious gaming. Most graphics cards for desktops are nowadays massive and some even require their own power supplies of 400-1000 Watts. Laptops have made massive leaps in efficiency and processing power but graphics remains very handicapped and there is nothing on AMD or Intels road map for the next 24 months that will change that will bring massive advancements in that area.
I would love an external box for the laptop that would allow me to buy a desktop GPU that will give my laptop desktop like graphics. This could work like a discrete GPU kind of like how the MacBook pro has an integrated and discrete GPU that both power the graphics depending on work load intensity.
