New laptop / desktop components released in 2012

[Deleted User]

What tech are people looking forward to next year for their new or upgrade laptop / desktops?

The following are all released in 2012 and are on my wish list:

Ivy Bridge CPU
DDR4 SDRAM
Windows 8
Nvidia's Kepler GPU

Updated:
SSD
USB 3.0

John_Gray

• Considerable reduction in price of hard disks
• Considerable reduction in price of SSDs
• Considerable increase in reliability of SSDs
• Considerable increase in available money...

cit_k

Cant see any point in junking my dell d630 until it runs slow, its pretty fast with 4gb ram, and ssd hybrid drive.

And when I do upgrade, I wont be paying for anything brand new, as it just drops in price like a stone in water shortly after release anyway.

Spank

Unlike Vista I am in no rush to replace a stable OS which I like.

[Deleted User]

John_Gray wrote: »

• Considerable reduction in price of hard disks
• Considerable reduction in price of SSDs
• Considerable increase in reliability of SSDs
• Considerable increase in available money...

Can you hit me up any links regarding the future of SSDs and where we might stand in 2012? Feasible HDD for a laptop with the above? I'm starting to worry about the power consumption and dissipating the heat! Not to mention possible cost!

cit_k wrote: »

Cant see any point in junking my dell d630 until it runs slow, its pretty fast with 4gb ram, and ssd hybrid drive.

And when I do upgrade, I wont be paying for anything brand new, as it just drops in price like a stone in water shortly after release anyway.

Spank wrote: »

Unlike Vista I am in no rush to replace a stable OS which I like.

I hear you guys! I'm running an Acer, 1GB RAM, AMD Turion ML-34, ATI Radeon X700, 6 years old over here! 1 mobo swapped out after ~14 months and not a peep since.

I'll buy new next year though. Hardware is pretty cheap nowadays and for the reliability and less chance of it being dropped first hand it's worth it in my opinion.

danmanchester

Some components and peripherals that can actually utilise USB 3.0.

debitcardmayhem

Deleted_User wrote: »

Can you hit me up any links regarding the future of SSDs and where we might stand in 2012? Feasible HDD for a laptop with the above? I'm starting to worry about the power consumption and dissipating the heat! Not to mention possible cost!


I hear you guys! I'm running an Acer, 1GB RAM, AMD Turion ML-34, ATI Radeon X700, 6 years old over here! 1 mobo swapped out after ~14 months and not a peep since.

I'll buy new next year though. Hardware is pretty cheap nowadays and for the reliability and less chance of it being dropped first hand it's worth it in my opinion.

You could of course use it for half of the time (eg don't post mindless rhetorical questions)

I don't like the look of Win8 (ok it's still beta but who wants a touch screen for a real PC)
I would like the Ubuntu (or canonical) to sort out USB 3.0 support like this year never mind 2012.
The thing I would really like is for programmers to start thinking about RAM as if it was still limited to say 64k and return to good practices rather than forgetting about clearing up after endless malloc's without free's

Hammyman

I'll still be using my 2009 Macbook Pro. Going on the cycle count so far, the battery is still good for at least another 4 or 5 years. Don't do any gaming so my desktop will be staying as it is too. Only upgraded it last year, 4 years after the previous upgrade, and even that was just a motherboard and CPU change.

For most peoples usage, computers have been fast enough now for about half a decade.

Hammyman

Deleted_User wrote: »

The following are all released in 2012 and are on my wish list:

Ivy Bridge CPU

Won't make you type any quicker. Won't make the internet any quicker.

DDR4 SDRAM

See above.

Windows 8

A mobile phone GUI on a computer?

Nvidia's Kepler GPU

So you can play the same games at 100FPS instead of 90FPS, not that you do because you get screen tear so you tick the "60FPS" box...

Apples2

Deleted_User wrote: »

I'm starting to worry about the power consumption and dissipating the heat!

Get out more :rotfl:

People asked the same question back in Windows95 days, sure enough the hardware improved, but software always leads it.
Everything will remain slow and cumbersome, it will just get a little prettier on the way.

mkw87

Hammyman wrote: »

Won't make you type any quicker. Won't make the internet any quicker.

99% of my time on a computer is spent waiting on the CPU! So I'm pretty interested in Intel's latest roadmaps.


Should be quite a few laptops coming out mid 2012 with Ivy Bridge, hopefully low power and good integrated graphics, at the moment the trade off is pretty steep.

Hoping the HDD factories start to re-open asap, and SSD prices continue to drop. Had my eye on a Crucial M4 for a while now but it's still a little bit too high.


Also I have no interest in Windows 8!