January 2014 I put together this PC for me:

Processor: AMD A-8-5600k APU 3.60 GHz with Radeon HD Graphics
installed memory (RAM) 16GB

Windows 7 64 bit

I like AMD cheap affordable easy to install and to keep cool

intel would cost $100 to $150 more which I could then spend on video card or more memory.

Now that I think about it I need a better PC, but have always lived on the premisive thought that if it works don't fix it.

My old girl has been running more or less on the components I got for her in 2011. Heck, the main HDD is much older than that. I think the newest part is the RAM which I got a year or two ago, but the CPU, Mobo and GPU are all 2011 stock and they're still holding up alright.
I won't run GTAV on max settings (or quite possibly at any settings) but it works for what I want it to. :hmmm:

Of course, now I've typed this something will probably explode. :dead:

Did you find that the AMD CPU ran hotter or did you put in extra cooling ? I understand the A-8 ran cooler than it's predecessors.

Has a stock fan, runs day and night ... the air temperature in the room does make a difference however so I use a small table fan at the under the table case level and run the AC up here for me in the summer time.

AMD CPU's tend to run a bit hot, but you can can easily fix that with a cheap CPU fan.

Wow, this leaves the market to ARM.:o

http://www.pcworld.com/article/30635...tom-chips.html

A friend of mine who works at Intel as a contractor tells me most of the people who are being fired are employees with benefits, some late in their career.

Of course, the important thing is that the executives get huge bonuses, am I right?

You are correct. Hopefully these execs will burn in hades. They are letting engineers go. Brilliant! For every engineer they let go, I think they should let go of 10 corporate service people, as they are useless and serve no useful function. I would not want to be an exec there, they are a rudderless ship at the moment. But hey, they have Lady Gaga 's endorsement!

Not convinced PCs will die out completely, but if their share of the market keeps diminishing, costs and innovation could be affected.

Google’s Making Its Own Chips Now. Time for Intel to Freak Out

9/10 for the title:har:

The whole Apple will replace MS in the business world argument has been going on for decades. Experience has taught me the demise of MS and MS-driven PCs is a bit exaggerated. For a very, very long time, generations raised in an Apple education technology environment have had to deal with the fact MS PCs are the very dominant presence in the real world business environment and have had to adapt to the fact. The idea businesses will scrap MS PCs and embrace Apple environments is false; the sheer cost of such a change would make any good-sized business balk. Apple really did itself in as far as PCs are concerned when they both over-priced their product and placed severe constraints on the ability of business to modify, scale, customize, and easily integrate their systems. Businesses did not choose MS and IBM products and clones because they were better than Apple products, they did so because they were less expensive, easier to service and maintain, and far more flexible than Apple devices and OSes. Apple thought they had a winning scheme when they threw their weight behind setting up educational programs designed to "hook" the young students and have them become acolytes who would spread the word of Apple unto the world; unfortunately for Apple, the business world was looking for fast and cheap, as always, and Apple was not cheap and, given its somewhat limited production capacity when PCs first came on the market, Apple was unable to provide product fast enough to meet demand. In the years I have had in the field of data processing, from mainframes to tablets, no matter what system or format, the person coming on to the job always has to adjust and adapt to the prevailing system. Apple is too far behind the curve when it comes to business needs: does anyone know of a major business running an Apple server?...

I don't think PC desktops will vanish altogether; they may remain in much the same manner as phonograph turntables, which, lately, have seen a significant resurgence of popularity, as have tube amplifiers for musicians and audiophiles. Where the real change will come is in the operating systems: the Apple OS has now been supplanted in worldwide popularity and use by Android and I would not be surprised to see desktops running Android-based OSes in the near future. Other OSes, like Linux, will have their adherents, but when it comes to developing a standardized, across all all devices and media OS system, Android is the big dog. If you've got to make all of your business be able to interact easily and cheaply, Android, with its wide base on so many personal devices currently has the upper hand...


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:agree:

All of the things you describe will have their own niche or merits. Tube amplifiers for example enjoy a " true Sound " and are valued for not " coloring " or altering the sound of electric guitar pickups. Most blues guitarists will not touch a solid state or hybrid amplifier. That is not to say they don't have their own merits or value though. Tube amps require their tubes to be replaced with some regularity which also requires the amp to be " rebiased " Solid State amps don't have this issue .


Although android devices and laptop and notebooks are popular, I don't see desktops disappearing any time soon. Manufacturers may just shift their emphasis to whatever makes them the most money.