Out of the new and emerging technologies which we will be seeing soon, which ones are you most excited about or most eager to use?

those neat-o bio-chips...they may be a long while off, but hella fast...I forget what the proper name is though.

MRAM sounds pretty cool too...

I always get interested in the battle between AMD and Intel. I love watchin Intel make moron's out of themselves.

I voted for 64 bit computing but in reality all of them except the next gen 3D GPUs would help with my music....production and broadcast.

I dont care about procs, graphics cards are alwasy fun...cool pcb colors and coolers...want to see what nvidia does *slash* / PCI-X

I'll be glad to see the old PCI slots go away along with the AGP. I like the idea of putting a video card in any slot you want, along with the increases in speeds for all the add in cards that have been stuck at 33mhz since...well, I can't remember that far back

I voted for BTX form factor, i think it is gonna be kewl. All the new stuff in one, and better (theoreticly) cooling, cant go wrong with that!!

can somone post some links to what BTx and PCI-X is all about...im to lazy to look

Im not 'excited' about any of them. This is because I will not be able to afford them. And I will probably never get them.

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Tycoon, BTX has a link on the poll item text.

I voted PCI-X, I figure it and BTX are the only really new architectures to reshape the PC world, the others are just updates to some extent. But I think PCI-X is just cooler, I mean, what an awesome name.

PCI-Express-Mainly because it will be a revolutionary ISA slot that is 110% better and functional. The technology just may last a while without major changes...but who knows with technology these days.

Really I'm most interested to see how a next get (939/775, PCI-X, DDR-2, SATA 2) system compares to todays ub3r clocked machines (3.6+ghz P4's and 2.5ghz AMD's)...

I voted for PCI-X though because overall it offers the biggest improvemnt. ATM most games are GPU limited (unless I'm wrong) and 33 / 66mb/s just sounds slow in the era of 4ghz CPU's (well, pushing it...).

But like I said, all this stuff sounds like its the next big leap, as in T-Brid / P3 to Athlon XP / P4 and GeForce 3 / Radeon 7500 to FX and R360 leap... Or maybe I'm just overhyped

one of each please!

-MF, pullin his chair up to the buffet line

All of it. But I voted for 64bit, like red said, its fun watching intel make asses of themselves

The DDR2 tech.

Video Cards, with 1GHz clocked memory.
Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside

I need to be alone now......

Well, it's all new and arguably better than what we have now....what's not to like? Thing is, it's all just an extension of the often flawed equipment of today. I'd like to see some things totally revised. For instance, I'd like to see:

*A completely solid-state and uncorruptible storage solution. No moving parts to wear out or make noise.
*An operating system based upon security first, eye-candy second, that is also user-friendly.
*A computer with multiple passive-cooled processors instead of one honking huge one using distributed computing technology. This would also include a motherboard with extra slots to add more. Instead of becoming obsolete, the older processors can handle more menial tasks and the newer ones can handle the important stuff (Games!). Want more speed? Add another processor without throwing out your last one.
*Fiber optic data cables, both inside the computer and throughout a home or office network. No more EMI interference or data loss.
*Secure wireless broadband and wireless networking devices that don't run on the same frequencies as other home appliances.
*Better mouse batteries and more electrically efficient cordless mice. Once a year is reasonable to change batteries.

Give me any of those things and I'd be one excited camper...

Just as evolution works, it got to be better, with teething problems at first, PCI-xpress will probably be the most noticeable. poor old 33mhz bus....they are all a welcome technology...

Wordbiker, I take it you're a silence lover???

The battery thing would be nice, I wan't an MX-700 mouse though, rechargable looks good enough.

For the solid sorce data solution I believe thats what RAM and puRAM are, am I wrong? and yea, ideally either the Hard Drive or RAM (along with caches) are eliminated and its direct data flow.

The fiber optics thing sounds interesting too, never really thought about that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wordbiker *Better mouse batteries and more electrically efficient cordless mice. Once a year is reasonable to change batteries. Give me any of those things and I'd be one excited camper...

Get a MX700 with a rechargable base

Im really looking forward to all of those

another thing im intreseted in seeing is seeing e-ink reach massproduction, athough its been around in signs for a little while now i would really like to see some more.... cant wait for the day when i can download my newspaper to my foldable screen , fold it up and stick it in my pocket and go to work

Check out this link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ps_displays_dc

Quote: Originally Posted by Arkangyl Wordbiker, I take it you're a silence lover??? The battery thing would be nice, I wan't an MX-700 mouse though, rechargable looks good enough. For the solid sorce data solution I believe thats what RAM and puRAM are, am I wrong? and yea, ideally either the Hard Drive or RAM (along with caches) are eliminated and its direct data flow. The fiber optics thing sounds interesting too, never really thought about that...

I already have an MX700, and it does indeed rox0r, but I still forget to put it back on the base sometimes. It lasts for a couple days on a charge, yet I still find myself sometimes having to swap out the batteries. It would be nice to not have to do that but once a year. I have a corded mouse as a backup for LANs so I never get caught with a dead mouse. Just like the puRAM, the technology is already here. They just need to chuck a few things out that seem to be lingering much longer than necessary, and concentrate on making stuff that would actually make our lives better at a price we can all afford.
And a silence-lover? Naw. As much fun as it is figuring out cooling solutions and doing mods to make them work, it'd sure be nice to not HAVE to come up with them. Maybe we could focus on other mods if most of our time wasn't taken up by that?
EDIT: I forgot to mention....that E-ink display is by Cambridge Display Technology, and I believe is licensed from Kodak. OLEDs should've been included in my list. Organic Light Emitting Displays could potentially be used on product labels, woven into garments....virtually any surface could be a display. I want a computer built into my jacket....one that I can change the color and texture of, watch a movie or check my email on my sleeve, take an important wireless call or pwn some n00b in my favorite game while waiting in the supermarket checkout line....now THAT would be exciting!