The PC is dead... Microsoft just killed it???

[Mikes2nd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oi1B9fjVs4

[Mikes2nd]

oh and Hololens is the shiznit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AADEqLIALk

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

Been coming for a long time, why else would they buy all the tech from Nokia to sell phones?

[2fnloud]

This has my undivided attention, would love to free up the dining room space.

[NickS VR4]

This has been a long time coming. Ubuntu for the phone was planning on doing the same exact thing. If I'm not mistaken, they ended up teaming up with Microsoft, which is probably where this comes from. The Hololens to me is a neat concept, but just does not feel very practical at this moment today. I love pushing the boundaries with new tech, but just don't realistically think people will want that. It's kind of like having a virtual or projected keyboard instead of a physical one.

Anyhow though, what worries me about Microsoft + Full PC apps on a phone is that you will need phones with 128-256gb of storage, and a ton of processing power to run their crap. Battery will die quick if it isn't plugged in.

[Alan92RTTT]

PC is not dead, not by a long shot.

The lightweight $300 laptop market maybe.

We are years from having a phone sized device that can replace the storage, speed, video power of the the systems I use daily.

This just removes the need of a PC for people that just use chat, email, office and the web.

[NickS VR4]

PC is not dead, not by a long shot.

The lightweight $300 laptop market maybe.

We are years from having a phone sized device that can replace the storage, speed, video power of the the systems I use daily.

This just removes the need of a PC for people that just use chat, email, office and the web.

What's missing from this phone... a keyboard, a mouse, a display, ports, etc. Unless you are going to carry around these things... people will still carry a laptop.

Motorola tried doing this as well with the Lapdock on their Atrix phones.

[Alan92RTTT]

Its not the features its power/storage.

Phone hardware can not match a high end PC or laptop. I personally think it will take a few major jumps in tech to get PC sized power into a phone sized device with usable battery life.

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

What's missing from this phone... a keyboard, a mouse, a display, ports, etc. Unless you are going to carry around these things... people will still carry a laptop.

Motorola tried doing this as well with the Lapdock on their Atrix phones.

I don't think the long term vision of this is to replace the laptop, but If devices that support this become ubiquitous then imagine every hotel has a setup, your desk at work, your desk at home. It docks to your car while you are on the road, etc. It brings some amazing use cases and with enough bandwidth can also pretty much replace local storage with all cloud based resources.

Power users may not immediately benefit, but I already bring an 8" windows tablet along in case I need to get something done remotely, but don't want to bring a laptop and everything that comes with it.

[guido1205us]

PC is not dead, not by a long shot.

The lightweight $300 laptop market maybe.

We are years from having a phone sized device that can replace the storage, speed, video power of the the systems I use daily.

This just removes the need of a PC for people that just use chat, email, office and the web.

Exactly.

Would love to have a phone like device that could replace my power hungry triple monitor gaming rig, but that is not going to happen any time soon. I'd give it 10yrs maybe.

[Mikes2nd]

but the code works on both on any screen.

And the new Windows "superphones" specs are looking pretty crazy...

3 gig ram, 32 on board, plus up to 128 on sd cards... removable batteries, 6-8 core cpus... they are not messing around. 20 megapixel back/5 front triple flash,

[Mikes2nd]

so 3 gig memory, 32 on board, 128 gig sd card and micro usb dual memory card... so another 128 or 256 gig?


is that enough memory in your hand?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPtIsAujbfI

[Alan92RTTT]

Superphone or not it wont do the job for me.

[Mikes2nd]

it wont for me either, but its a good start for a lot of people.

the fact that the two platforms are officially merged is something I didn't think I would see for quite some time.

oh these phones will also have hands off commands, like the Samsung phones used but a lot more. so you can surf with your hands above the phone without touching it.

[2fnloud]

For what I use a PC for: Microsoft office, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Web browser...this is perfect, the only program that I would need a powerhouse PC is AutoCad.

[IPD]

The PC will be dead about the time that corporations cease to exist. That is all.