Krisztian Gulyas Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I see these new laptops that are quite powerful with the latest i7 and 16-24gb RAM and that manufacturers focus mostly on laptops now. Do you think in a few years laptops will get so powerful (in rendering) that it will replace (or at least be as powerful as) the pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 No. Laptops have to take into account power usage, which is why they always have specially designed "mobile" processors. You could certainly put a top end Xeon processor into a laptop, but you wouldn't expect the battery to live very long, and given that the primary design point of a laptop is portability it renders it pretty much useless as anything other than a paperweight... Unless of course you always have access to power whilst you're out and about. The only other way it might catch up to the PC in terms of processing power is if the power gap between mobile & desktop processors narrows significantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisztian Gulyas Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 By "replacing" i meant that laptops will be the new desktop pc that we do not carry around (or not very often, so the power usage wouldn't be a problem), and tablets/ultrabooks/chromebooks etc will be used as laptops are used today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I still don't think so, unless technology shrinks considerably. How would you fit a large graphics card, or several graphics cards into such a small form factor? Never say never, but at the moment it seems fairly unlikely. The problem with laptops is that it's a simple case of "what you see is what you get", whereas a PC is almost infinitely upgradable and expandable. Over the years I've upgraded PC's that should have been on the scrapheap countless times and brought them back to life, but had I had a laptop I don't think that this would have been the case. Smaller form factor PC's however are always welcome, but again just how small is "too small". At which point does it begin to compromise what components you can/can't change? Perhaps someone else disagrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Even if a laptop was as good as a desktop, I'd still want monitors, mouse, keyboard, etc. I use a laptop when working from home, and it's great, but I wouldn't like to use one 8 hours a day. Also PCs are easy to build and change parts to upgrade / replace, where as laptops aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 tablets/ultrabooks/chromebooks etc will be used as laptops are used today. If I were the type to commute and work on the go, etc I would definitely get myself a Windows Surface Pro. Those things are absolutely fantastic, and aren't just for dicking around on the internet; you can actually get proper work done on them. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-gb/products/surface-pro-3 One of the guys here does lots of photoshop work on his Surface Pro at home, and absolutely loves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyderSK Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 SurfacePro3 looks amazing, definitely will get the i7 ones once it comes out to see how feels. If it can handle Photoshop/Zbrush/etc.. that that's would be sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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