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Death of the PC

Yoshi and me were just chatting about the eventual death of both the PC and the mobile phone as we know them today when he asked me to test this FFAF-thingy for him. So since that happened, here I am.

So let me ask you the larger viewing audience than I have over at my site: Do you know what Flash Memory is? Do you know what a MicroSD card is? How do you feel about something like that replacing the CD and DVD so that PCs can become smaller? No more need for an optical drive. We’re past that now… it’s just that the industry has yet to really grasp that and catch up. We already get our music digitally. We can now get our HD movies digitally. Mac users have been stealing their software digitally for years. So why do we still have optical disks?

Have you seen the prices on Flash Memory lately? If not, take a look. You should get to know the future.

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5 Responses to “Death of the PC”

Colin Brooks Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 7:12 am

I know what flash memory is but I really don’t think it will replace the optical disks anytime soon. It has the potential and I won’t disagree with you there. Compared to the cost of blank CD’s or DVD’s I don’t see how they can be considered an alternative. Optical disks are very widely used and the introduction of new disks with higher capacities (like DVD when it came around and more recently blu-ray and the short lived HD DVD) allows companies and soon users to have a lot of data stored on there so the capacity gap between flash memory and optical disks is not as big.

I see flash memory as more of a reusable medium so why use flash memory to store files or data that are archived? I see your point I just don’t feel flash memory will replace optical disks completely.

Katie Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 8:13 am

Flash memory does seem more temporary to me… I’ve had enough cards randomly decide that they are “not formatted” and eat all the data I had on them to not *want* to use it as a more permanant solution.

Insomnic Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 8:21 am

I think it will get there eventually - but not for awhile. Cheap flash memory is still too unreliable. Once it drops more in price (and our data compression gets much, much better), the I definitely think the CD will be out the door. I think it’ll be quite some time yet. Heck… people are still using cassettes and Yoshi hasn’t even bought an MP3 player yet!

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cybrpunk Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 8:17 am

Just to be clear, I’m not thinking in the next few years here. Probably in ten or so years the cost of a 16GB MicroSD will be the same cost as a blank DVD. It’s just the way of the market. And considering ultra-mobile PCs are increasingly coming with optical drives as “add-on”, it can’t happen soon enough for me.