BJP, I think that people will find a need for higher speed chips.
people doing word processing certainly won't, but your other examples certainly will.
(a) people playing games---Games have always found a way to use up all the processing power. There is no question about that. Graphics quality in games is currently limited because the conventional ways of presenting graphics are as 3d or a group of texture-wrapped polygons. These require huge amounts of power to redraw...
(c) The internet, remember, is really something that has come about in the last 2 years. While bandwidth problems will first need to be solved, there will, I'm sure, be applications that need every bit of processing power they can get. Have you thought about full screen streaming video, virtual kiosks, etc?
But in all fairness, until these things are a reality and mainstream, people will have no reason to buy more than a $1299 P200. But I guess they are anyway, because GTW's sales and average selling price (well over $2K, I think) are facts.
Brian |
