Tempest
Distinguished Member
Didn't want to take this thread off in any one direction.
I just had this long running feeling that it would be nice to buy one single really powerful grunt of a machine, with all the storage, speed, graphics ability and all that, which totally kicked ass, and have that hidden away in the middle of your home.
Then pop down the road any buy very lightweight laptops, tablets, phones, handheld consoles, mp3 players!
anything, that was just able to link up to this "box of ultimate power" and instantly all over your home you had all this power appear in your new cheap. lightweight device.
I'm sure there are drawbacks, it just seemed a logical/sensible route in some ways.
No need for your phone and tablet to struggle with the game due to their battery sipping CPU/GPU's inside, as every device at home always had the full power to draw on.
As I said, probably COULD be done now, it's just there is not such easy money to be made by the big companies who want to sell you an upgraded device each year/few years
I just had this long running feeling that it would be nice to buy one single really powerful grunt of a machine, with all the storage, speed, graphics ability and all that, which totally kicked ass, and have that hidden away in the middle of your home.
Then pop down the road any buy very lightweight laptops, tablets, phones, handheld consoles, mp3 players!
anything, that was just able to link up to this "box of ultimate power" and instantly all over your home you had all this power appear in your new cheap. lightweight device.
I'm sure there are drawbacks, it just seemed a logical/sensible route in some ways.
No need for your phone and tablet to struggle with the game due to their battery sipping CPU/GPU's inside, as every device at home always had the full power to draw on.
As I said, probably COULD be done now, it's just there is not such easy money to be made by the big companies who want to sell you an upgraded device each year/few years