Hi Josh, that sounds like an awesome racing game to be sure. :) The laptop I was mentioning which belongs to a friend is actually much higher specced than that, so make no mistake that laptops can perform like this.
His machine is designed to run the most current intensive industry-standard image rendering software. Previously this level of software needed to be run on machines like the Mac Pro etc. Check out Alienware. You can completely custom-build a laptop from them which can be quite something. http://www.alienware.com/Landings/laptops.aspx?&ST=new%20alienware%20m14x&dgc=ST&cid=245947&lid=4238044&acd=123098073120560 Of course though, obviously,since desktops can be customized as well, as you say, there will be people who wish to do that. -Nothing wrong with that! :) Please understand, I am not saying anything personally against desktops, :) it's just that I think we will be seeing a lot less production / availability of desktop hardware. In fact, this is already happening in the mainstream. Have an awesome night and do share more about the racing game if you like. I totally dug 3D driving games when I could see. Cheers! Cara --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Mar 31, 2015, at 5:45 AM, Josh K <[email protected]> wrote: there will always be people who want to tinker and upgrade their devices and play very demanding games so I think gaming and entertainment desktops will still be around. some racing games my son plays require the latest and greatest core i7 with 8 or more gigs of ram just to play them. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 3/30/2015 7:34 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Unfortunately this is not what I see happening. > > People are still needing to use laptops at this point for work tasks which > used to need to be done on desktops. > > Desktops are now already being relegated to only the most extreme, demanding > tasks because portables have now become so powerful that they can do > industry-standard work in such fields as visual design, audio engineering etc. > > I have a friend who is a designer who runs all his software on a very > high-end laptop so he can work from anywhere. Just a few years ago, running > this sort of software on a laptop was simply unheard-of. > > Personally, I still also need a laptop to do my development work. All of the > developers I work with, need to do this due to processing power requirements > or simple logistics in developing for mobile platforms. > > So pretty much the laptop is not going anywhere soon. > > However, for many other work tasks, it is true. Mobile devices and tablets > are gaining momentum. > > -And obviously, for non-work activities the mobile / tablet scene is already > overtaken everything else by far. > > Thanks and great topic! > > Cheers! > > Cara > --- > iOS design and development - LookTel.com > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > > On Mar 27, 2015, at 11:30 AM, darren harris <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > I can see where you're coming from there. but look at it like this. Mobile > devices have only really evolved properly over the last 10 years. We've have > had reasonably powerful desktop pc's for longer than 10 years now. we've > been playing games on pc's for a lot longer than 10 years. On the iPhone now > you can play flight simulaters, games like max payne, on desktops you've > been able to do that for a good 15 years. But 10 years ago your average > mobile device the most advanced thing it could do is wap and that wasn't > really that good because for 1 thing it was so limited. 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