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Yaos
Feb 22, 2003

She is a cat of significant gravy.
Since future Intel and AMD processors will have a GPU built in will we be seeing games taking advantage of it for physics?

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Yaos
Feb 22, 2003

She is a cat of significant gravy.
In 2020 I see handheld devices being entry level computers unless there's some huge leap in what people will want to do on their computers in the next 8 years. I don't see anybody trying to push multiple components like that except in high end computers for gaming and idiot workplaces that think their "current" version of Office 2013 needs $3000 computers.

For this to happen handheld devices will need to get programs that are not cut down versions of their desktop counterparts, multi-monitor support, multiple window support, and a UI that supports both touch and keyboard+mouse controls.

Businesses will have a harder time considering the amount of legacy software they have to deal with that nobody wants to replace because of cost or a worthless user refuses to change. VMs can help with this, although more work needs to be done to make this seamless. If you run shitty_legacy_app from a VM it should just seamlessly start up without the user knowing they are running in a VM. As a bonus, don't require IT to setup the application to do it.

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