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How small can they get...?
Mobile phones at first started out like breeze blocks…then bricks….and now they’re smaller than your hand (That is unless you have really tiny hands!)
Computers started out as big operating machines about the size of a car, that at their best managed to print out a few pages of text...and from then on they have got smaller and smaller…
First PCs, then smaller PCs, then laptops, and now you can even use a mobile phone to do many things a computer does. And Game Consoles are the same, just keep getting smaller and smaller.
In their time these large components were apparently “as small as they could get”, but No, we just keep proving ourselves wrong and making them smaller.
Yes, you know what I’m getting to…The GameCube... It is about 10cm x 15cm… I mean do we really need these game consoles this small? (I’m not having a dig at Nintendo)
I always use to view my computer as a house hold object, along with the washing machine and microwave!
I could never lose my computer; it was never going to move.
I would never have thought I would see the day where I heard “Mum, I’ve lost my computer”, “Don’t worry Son, I found it down the back of the sofa this morning”.
Can you imagine trying to squash your PC down the back of your sofa! It just wouldn’t happen.
Why is it we are always looking for the smallest next best thing?
Will we in 10 years time be saying, “My computer’s TOO small, I want a bigger one” ?!
What I am asking you is, can computers or game consoles get any smaller and if so will this be a good or bad thing?
Mobile phones at first started out like breeze blocks…then bricks….and now they’re smaller than your hand (That is unless you have really tiny hands!)
Computers started out as big operating machines about the size of a car, that at their best managed to print out a few pages of text...and from then on they have got smaller and smaller…
First PCs, then smaller PCs, then laptops, and now you can even use a mobile phone to do many things a computer does. And Game Consoles are the same, just keep getting smaller and smaller.
In their time these large components were apparently “as small as they could get”, but No, we just keep proving ourselves wrong and making them smaller.
Yes, you know what I’m getting to…The GameCube... It is about 10cm x 15cm… I mean do we really need these game consoles this small? (I’m not having a dig at Nintendo)
I always use to view my computer as a house hold object, along with the washing machine and microwave!
I could never lose my computer; it was never going to move.
I would never have thought I would see the day where I heard “Mum, I’ve lost my computer”, “Don’t worry Son, I found it down the back of the sofa this morning”.
Can you imagine trying to squash your PC down the back of your sofa! It just wouldn’t happen.
Why is it we are always looking for the smallest next best thing?
Will we in 10 years time be saying, “My computer’s TOO small, I want a bigger one” ?!
What I am asking you is, can computers or game consoles get any smaller and if so will this be a good or bad thing?
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Do you have any idea how much that would COST?
A grain of sand!....thats pretty impressive...Cant wait to see it in action in the future
No console news yet, heres the info from PCW since your interested:
"US scientists have developed a refridgerator the size of a grain of sand to keep computer chips cold. The microcoolers, developed by Optoelectronics Research Group of the University of California, have managed to cool chips by 7 degrees centigrade. They exploit a thermoelectric effect using up to 200 layers of alternating between silicon and germanium."
"US scientists have developed a refridgerator the size of a grain of sand to keep computer chips cold. The microcoolers, developed by Optoelectronics Research Group of the University of California, have managed to cool chips by 7 degrees centigrade. They exploit a thermoelectric effect using up to 200 layers of alternating between silicon and germanium."
New Jimmy wrote:
How small will they get, very small especially with the new chip cooling technology thats been developed recently.
Whats this chip cooling technology?.... Sounds intresting.... Do you know the developer behind this...and what console will we se it in?
Thanks
How small will they get, very small especially with the new chip cooling technology thats been developed recently.
Whats this chip cooling technology?.... Sounds intresting.... Do you know the developer behind this...and what console will we se it in?
Thanks
Smaller computers are definately the way forward.
Lets be honest Laptops are cool, and so the GameCube will be cool to.
Besides which a smaller console is easier to take over your mates house. A good reason to buy the GameCube.
How small will they get, very small especially with the new chip cooling technology thats been developed recently.
Lets be honest Laptops are cool, and so the GameCube will be cool to.
Besides which a smaller console is easier to take over your mates house. A good reason to buy the GameCube.
How small will they get, very small especially with the new chip cooling technology thats been developed recently.
deejay wrote:
Why the title "Mum, I’ve lost my
> computer........."?
You didnt read the post did you?.... It was a quote from it... Hence the quotation marks... :)
Why the title "Mum, I’ve lost my
> computer........."?
You didnt read the post did you?.... It was a quote from it... Hence the quotation marks... :)
Dav1d wrote:
> Do you think we will see games on mobile phones soon?
No, I dont
> mean snakes and racket, I mean proper games.
You cant
> underestimate it because the GameBoy black and white model isnt all
> that special (graphics i mean)
So will we be seeing Gran Turismo
> on our mobile phones in the future?!
The new phones that will be released some time in the future ( I think they are 3G phones or something like that) will have java built in making the games for them a better standard then the normal black and white ones we have now. They can be in full colour. Little is known yet of what kind of games to expect but they probably wont be to good to begin with.
> Do you think we will see games on mobile phones soon?
No, I dont
> mean snakes and racket, I mean proper games.
You cant
> underestimate it because the GameBoy black and white model isnt all
> that special (graphics i mean)
So will we be seeing Gran Turismo
> on our mobile phones in the future?!
The new phones that will be released some time in the future ( I think they are 3G phones or something like that) will have java built in making the games for them a better standard then the normal black and white ones we have now. They can be in full colour. Little is known yet of what kind of games to expect but they probably wont be to good to begin with.
Blast. Hit the cut on my keyboard again. Im using a laptop so alll the keys are close together and verrrrry light
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