What hardware are you most looking forward to?
Over the past year, Icrontic has covered a hell of a lot of up-and-coming hardware from all over the PC industry:
And the list goes on and on. So, Icrontic users, what's your cup of tea over the next 1-2 years? What do you want to get your hands on?
- AMD chipsets, GPU computing, server parts and processors
- ATI Radeon HD refresh parts
- Solid State Disks
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 GPUs
- Intel's 32nm Westmere architecture
- Smartphones
- 32nm GPUs
- 3D Television
- Hexa core Phenom IIs
And the list goes on and on. So, Icrontic users, what's your cup of tea over the next 1-2 years? What do you want to get your hands on?
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As a tie-in to this, I'm really looking forward to the progression of Win7 powered tablet PCs and UMIDs. On the T91MT I removed all the Asus crap that came with it because Windows 7 does such a damn good job on it's own. Such a versatile OS...
(No, of course not, I just trolling)
I'm tempted to say 3D displays but I just don't feel like they're going to be mature enough in the next two years to really get excited. I think it's a tie between SSDs and new AMD hardware for me.
-Bobby
Of course, not to mention any new workstation hardware that NVIDIA and ATI have in the pipes for this summer.
I agree with Snarkasm and Chris, I would love to see more OLED coverage as the tech further finds its place, and I would like to see more stereoscopic stuff, especially with 3D capable displays. Currently there are only a handful of 3D capable displays on the market (talking PC displays, not HDTVs. I think Viewsonic, Acer, and Samsung are the only ones at the moment) and as the amount of available displays grow, I'm certainly going to consider buying one to upgrade my current display.
Also, from a journalism standpoint, I'd love to get my hands on 3D vision or get the hardware to utilize the FirePro v8750's stereoscopic output.
3D monitors o.O
Take this boxee box, its going to really make it easy to get that stuff off the computer and on the HD TV set. Anything that makes networking at home easier is going to be a hot item.
http://www.boxee.tv/box
Boxee Box is the #1 thing I'm looking forward to in 2010. I'll follow that with 25nm/SATA6 SSDs, and then the 32nm war between AMD's Bulldozer and Intel's Westmere chips.
I didn't even realize they had released a new version of the Myka.tv box til today, but this thing makes me drool a bit, even though they weren't able to hit the amazingly low price point they did with the original myka.tv box. Oh, and it supports Boxee, not that it matters to me since I gave up on that project months ago due to their refusal to release a build for 64-bit Linux.
2. Multi-core (greater than 4-core) CPUs
3. Solid state hard drives (when price/volume ratios become comparable with today's electro-optical drives. Until that happens, SSDs are a big yawn)
I'm looking forward to more mobile tech (better battery life, smaller, lighter parts on laptops and smaller devices) but more importantly OLED for 2 reasons, 1 is because I'm somewhat sick of "silver" black when trying to play dark games and 2 is for the better response times, no more motion blur.