Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it

Semiaccurate ^ | Nov 26, 2012; | CDemerjian

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"Intel is killing the desktop, but not quite as soon as people expect it to, there will be one last gasp, but that is irrelevant."

In a story that SemiAccurate has been following for several months, Broadwell will not come in an LGA package, so no removable CPU. The news was first publicly broken by the ever sharp PC Watch, english version here, but the news has been floating in the backchannel for a bit now. The problem? This information wasn’t floating around the OEMs or the majority of the PC ecosystem, they had no clue. What does all of this mean? Quite a bit.

The most direct effect is that of Broadwell, the 14nm successor to next year’s Haswell CPU, will essentially shut out the enthusiast. Motherboards will still be available, but the CPUs that come with them will be soldered down. In addition to being a inventory management nightmare, OEMs won’t buy CPUs any more, the few remaining mobo vendors and ODMs will. As a side effect, it also cuts the enthusiast out of the picture for good, but more on that later.

Normally, you would expect Intel to tell the companies that are affected, the Asuses, Gigabytes, MSIs, and maybe Asrocks if they are still around, well ahead of time. This time Intel didn’t, and that should tell you a great deal about their intentions. At least a few key PC players found out from SemiAccurate a few months ago, and they were rather incredulous about the news. This state of mind has probably changed to a state a bit past peeved by now, their entire business is about to be gutted. Intel didn’t just do a bad job of messaging this one, they didn’t do any job of it.

[mikrofon]

We’re tending towards providing laptops with docking stations in the office for staff. Best of both worlds…

[Hedra]

Thanks.

from what I have read before, AMD has become Intels biggest competitor as of late.

They have come a loing way since the days when they were just a poor stepsister.

[Hedra]

I do a lot of writing, including a newspaper column (locally),

What paper, inquiring minds want to know.

[wrench]

^^ and a 24’ monitor ^^

Wow, I had no idea they were available that big. I guess there are some folks with eyes weaker than mine.

[FrankR]

Mistype...that’s 24” (inch)...lol

[FrankR]

Hedra, it’s just a small-town shopper type newspaper, no big deal. It’s not a political column, just folksy, homespun subjects. Thanks for asking.

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I do a lot of writing, including a newspaper column (locally), plus all of my photoshop work, and I’m more comfortable in my office, alone, with a 1 TB hard drive, good keyboard/mouse, and a 24’ monitor.

Is your office a movie theater?

[chuckles]

For me, this is scary. I trade stocks and options for my income in retirement. I have a tower with 4 monitors right now. I just can’t do what I do on a laptop or tablet. If I were trapped at a hospital and had to trade one option or a single stock, maybe I could get it done in an orderly manor, but to try and watch 7-10 stocks with options streaming and streaming charts to match, it just can’t be done on one screen. I guess I can collect trash from the dumpster to keep my system running, but I don’t want to. I do have many used parts in my system right now, but that was just to save money from buying new parts. If I can’t even get them, I will be stuck in the ‘80’s forever.

[FrankR]

typO....24” (inch)...common sense should have told you that.

[Mastador1]

Who cares! I will never knowingly buy another Intel product. Their corporate values do not jibe with mine so they will not receive any support from me. After all isn’t that how the demoncrats play the game?

[FreedomPoster]

The problem with displays of any (large) size is that getting beyond 1920x1080 is still very expensive. I can’t wait for the TV people to start going to 2560x1440 or beyond.

[Bobalu]

They make USB video cards. Just plug them in and hook an HDMI monitor to them.

I use a 42” VISIO HDMI screen for my monitor...they are cheap and it’s got a lot of space on it.

[rurgan]

Thanks I could use that too.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

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Newegg:

SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-F-O ATX Server Motherboard Socket G34 AMD SR5650 DDR3 1333

And :

Opterons at newegg

[Disambiguator]

I’ve found it’s best not to assume anything. We sometimes use a projector attached to a computer in meetings, and our “monitor” becomes 7’ or thereabouts.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And at microcenter:

H8SGL-F Socket G34 ATX AMD Motherboard

And :

Opteron

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Server barebone 4U rackmount:

From :

Servers Direct

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