06.15.07
My response to: ‘Opinion: My UMPC is more than my Companion PC’
My response to CTitanic’s thread where he laid down some bait and got a few folks riled up.
Opinion: My UMPC is more than my Companion PC.
I could easily see my UMPC as my desktop replacement… 15 years ago.
Sadly, it’s the present and desktops will always be faster no matter what.There has never been a desktop that could keep up with my needs. There’s always a need for more speed.
Hell, I remember in the late 80′s I upgraded my Amiga’s 7MHz processor for a 20 MHz 68030 chip so I can render a 640×480 3D image in a half day rather than wait all night into the morning. Today’s standards, it would take a split second to render the same image.These days, it’s about getting good frames per second in shooters, running Media Center smoothly, and encoding high definition h264 video as fast as possible.
Would I like a UMPC to do all that? Sure, but by the time that happens our needs and demands will grow even higher, and as always, only the desktop will be able to handle it.
Everyone’s needs are different. If I never played PC games, got into video, or never realized how cool Media Center is, would I need a desktop? Probably not.
So for me, the UMPC is my portable/mobile/lightweight PC (I refuse to use the term ‘Companion Device’ since that just sounds lame to me).
Do I try to do all the things I can and push it to its limits? You bet. Whatever I can get away with… but I’ll still have a desktop as my ‘other’ (see how I didn’t say ‘main’) computer.
