I can't believe this can of worms was actually opened. This'll be interesting to watch.
I'm not into PC gaming, so gaming to me would be OSS games, Indie projects, and emulation. Until I got my current desktop, I used my laptop for all of these gaming needs. It was a blast being able to take all of my emulators with me to college. Granted, Dolphin and PCSX2 were out of the question, but everything less than that was great. I loved being able to take my laptop around and still know it was good for some gaming when I was away from home. But like I said, I'm not a PC gamer.
I don't exactly see laptops as having better tech, SS. You posted some good examples of how technology evolves certain products. I agree that everything is moving towards being smaller, faster, and easy to use. Case in point, I'm typing this on my iPod, as it's much more convenient than running off to boot up a full-blown desktop.
I see several technologies going through changes lately. For one, there's the birth of the smartphone/tablet. Laptops may well change with Intel's ultrabooks. I have a feeling that laptops are going to, at the least, get slimmer, boot faster, get more powerful, and have longer battery lives. Some might have considered netbooks to have been the next evolution in laptops, but things look like they're taking a different direction.
Desktops too could evolve. Whose to say that "hulking" machine won't be the size of a 3 inch cube some time in the future? Computers used to take up entire gymnasiums; telling people in the 60s that you'd have a box many magnitudes smaller in 50 years, you might have gotten some strange looks. I'm just keeping an open mind here; I'm sure we haven't seen the limits of our own innovation.
In the end though, I'm a gamer, so I use whatever I can to game. If the future is desktop, laptops, tablets, consoles, or web browsers, I'm there. I'll wait until they stop selling any hardware/software, though, before I declare any of them obsolete.
I'm not into PC gaming, so gaming to me would be OSS games, Indie projects, and emulation. Until I got my current desktop, I used my laptop for all of these gaming needs. It was a blast being able to take all of my emulators with me to college. Granted, Dolphin and PCSX2 were out of the question, but everything less than that was great. I loved being able to take my laptop around and still know it was good for some gaming when I was away from home. But like I said, I'm not a PC gamer.
I don't exactly see laptops as having better tech, SS. You posted some good examples of how technology evolves certain products. I agree that everything is moving towards being smaller, faster, and easy to use. Case in point, I'm typing this on my iPod, as it's much more convenient than running off to boot up a full-blown desktop.
I see several technologies going through changes lately. For one, there's the birth of the smartphone/tablet. Laptops may well change with Intel's ultrabooks. I have a feeling that laptops are going to, at the least, get slimmer, boot faster, get more powerful, and have longer battery lives. Some might have considered netbooks to have been the next evolution in laptops, but things look like they're taking a different direction.
Desktops too could evolve. Whose to say that "hulking" machine won't be the size of a 3 inch cube some time in the future? Computers used to take up entire gymnasiums; telling people in the 60s that you'd have a box many magnitudes smaller in 50 years, you might have gotten some strange looks. I'm just keeping an open mind here; I'm sure we haven't seen the limits of our own innovation.
In the end though, I'm a gamer, so I use whatever I can to game. If the future is desktop, laptops, tablets, consoles, or web browsers, I'm there. I'll wait until they stop selling any hardware/software, though, before I declare any of them obsolete.