TheMagicM wrote:
Please nothing Amiga related. Think outside the box and take the tinfoil hats off.
cue the harp and the clouds, birds chirping..
back in the day of computing..when it was fun (C=64/128/Amiga/Atari) there was always breakthrough technology or something that came out and stirred up alot of commotion.
Nowadays it seems as though its just ho-hum. Nothing really catches my eye and it seems as though the IT world is obsessed with speed/number crunching. Will we have to wait 10+ years for another groundbreaking achievement in computing? What is the next big thing that should be accomplished? What are we looking for? Drop the 'fan favorite' cpu talk (like sticking to PPC). x86 isnt bad. So what we're really after is a good operating system?
Funny, I was thinking about this earlier today, computing really doesn't excite me anymore, even in the days of 486 and Pentium, it was quite exciting, not as exciting as the C64/Amiga days, but it was certainly better than now.
Personally, I think it has something to do with the fact that we have reached a point where the most basic modern system can do just about everything the average home user could want it to do. In the 486 days, you could shell out 5 or 6 grand on a high end machine and it still would struggle with a then current game, thats not the case anymore. Sure with an entry level system you won't get fancy graphics, but the game will still be very playable.
Last year I moved from an Athlon 2500+ Barton based machine to an Athlon 64 4000+ and didn't notice any difference in perfomance with day to day tasks. However, having read some articles pertaining to Windows Vista RC1, things do look a little bleak. E.g. machines running a GeForce 7900 were experiencing excessive fan noise because the chip was running at 100% just trying to render the bloody GUI. How on earth is that supposed to be exciting? Let alone ground breaking? The only thing something like that breaks is the bank. Meh, personally, I loathe this technological age we now live in, computers are no longer just a hobby, they are part of our day to day routine and routine is, IMO, a tad boring.