Sad but true.I'm going to put this bluntly: gamers aren't important.
We like to think we are important though.
Sad but true.I'm going to put this bluntly: gamers aren't important.
We like to think we are important though.
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This thread astounds me... The Windows 8 Metro look was first unveiled in June... It's now September. Microsoft has been getting its ass kicked in the tablet/phone market, this is their way of trying to even the playing field. If anyone had bothered to watch any of the demos they'd also know that you can shell out to the Windows 7 desktop for non Metro apps.
Stuff takes some time to adopt, give it time and this will be what people are looking for in their desktops as well as mobile devices.
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According to what I saw on videos the entire Windows 8 tablet UI seems to be only an app, an extension of some sort over normal Windows UI.
I too obviously hate the tablet UI (consdering that I use Windows on my laptop and PC) but it seems to be only... Something like the side bar in Windows Vista (and I think it's in Win7 too) that I have never ever used.
At the moment, maybe, but if the Win8 initiative works we'll see a lot less difference between tablets and a desktop OS; after all, your Win8 tablet will be able to run the same software that your desktop can. They can browse the web, watch and store media, and do just about anything short of professional-grade computing tasks (like video encoding). They aren't good for gamers, but as I said earlier, why are gamers relevant?
Now, a caveat - I think smartphones are probably more important than tablets in the longrun, because they have even more functionality as a phone on top of their potential to have desktop-level computing capabilities. Their status as an all-in-one device for most consumers is very, very attractive.There's still some growth so we aren't completely saturated, but I think we're reaching a point where traditional computing devices (laptops, desktops) will stop seeing growth or decline because mobile devices offer a superior experience for consumers.
Any ETA on Windows 8's release? I know it might be a ways off, but for this holiday season I think I'm using all my gift money to buy a windows phone, and if say Windows 8 was coming out in February, I'd wait till then, and buy the new Windows 8 Phone
Btw, I figured out how to turn off the Windows 8 boot-loader... I set preferred OS to Windows 7.
Grats, cherry picking computing tasks that are irrelevant to 95% of consumers. If you want to run a virtual machine, yeah, you should probably stick with a desktop for now. If you're like every other consumer, though, you're much more interested in running Quickbooks, Excel, Word, or an IDE than you are in running a virtual machine.
P.S. There are smartphones - smartphone, not tablet - with 1GB RAM. It's not so far off.
Again, I don't think games are important (if that's what you're referring to). People who play Crysis are not representative of typical consumers.
I don't give a damn about gamers here either. You're misunderstanding if you think so.
Name me exactly one reason you should use a mobile device if you're not moving once a frigging minute.
Because you don't need to synchronize files with a file server computer or Dropbox if you just use one device for everything? Because you don't even really need to own the other device if your mobile is good enough for your usage?
Processor speed will never increase. Ever. That would be ludicrous. ARM may see its market share decline, too; Intel has announced that it's merging its Atom and Core teams under a single design infrastructure. This isn't because they think their mobile processors are less important now. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a Haswell tablet.
Last edited by Meleti; 2011-09-18 at 10:15 PM.