Relvinl544
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Will pc die out, once the next gen consoles comes out?
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Relvinl544
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Thanks, good answer
ubuysa
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As Ubuysa says, PC's and consoles are very different beasts from a use case perspective.
A console is designed from the ground up to do one job well - play games - and a few secondary jobs ok - stream media for example.
A PC can do all of that (and in some cases much better) and much, much more. Office productivity, CAD/CAM, programming general applications in a multitude of languages, web browsing etc etc.
What is interesting is the shift in the last 5 or so years particularly, back to what can be thought of as a mainframe way of thinking. "Web apps" as we generally call them in the enterprise, where the client, or application, a user runs is not much more than a web browser and the heavy lifting in terms of processing is done back on a centralised system.
It's not a new concept - as I mentioned, mainframes have done it this way for decades - and the likes of Citrix have built their entire business on it, but it can make life a lot easier when it comes to architecting and upgrading systems. As well as more complex in some ways.
As a side note I am seeing a move away from legacy mainframes, as they cannot be easily virtualised into the cloud (and I hate the term "cloud computing", generally) in the retail space as there is a migration to the likes of Azure.
They won't go away - banks in particular and insurance companies need decades of data for one thing, but there is a slow shift.
A console is designed from the ground up to do one job well - play games - and a few secondary jobs ok - stream media for example.
A PC can do all of that (and in some cases much better) and much, much more. Office productivity, CAD/CAM, programming general applications in a multitude of languages, web browsing etc etc.
What is interesting is the shift in the last 5 or so years particularly, back to what can be thought of as a mainframe way of thinking. "Web apps" as we generally call them in the enterprise, where the client, or application, a user runs is not much more than a web browser and the heavy lifting in terms of processing is done back on a centralised system.
It's not a new concept - as I mentioned, mainframes have done it this way for decades - and the likes of Citrix have built their entire business on it, but it can make life a lot easier when it comes to architecting and upgrading systems. As well as more complex in some ways.
As a side note I am seeing a move away from legacy mainframes, as they cannot be easily virtualised into the cloud (and I hate the term "cloud computing", generally) in the retail space as there is a migration to the likes of Azure.
They won't go away - banks in particular and insurance companies need decades of data for one thing, but there is a slow shift.