Windows 8

[Surplus]

True it is technically inferior to keyboard but it is still good enough. I think I wasn’t being clear enough when I say “die”. I mean die as in as the dominate shape PCs take (personal computer which tablets and smart phones qualify as). Effectively out of the picture for the average entertainment consumer.

So you might still be using a desktop pc at your job (greatly depending on what you do) and for some niche needs.

[garrthbarrttinn]

@SURPLUS_NiNjA

True it is technically inferior to keyboard but it is still good enough. I think I wasn’t being clear enough when I say “die”. I mean die as in as the dominate shape PCs take (personal computer which tablets and smart phones qualify as). Effectively out of the picture for the average entertainment consumer.

So you might still be using a desktop pc at your job (greatly depending on what you do) and for some niche needs.

That’s more realistic. Tablet for entertainment, laptop/desktop for everything else. However bloggers forumites and such will still want desktops/laptops for all the typing they do. Realistically, everyone will have a desktop entertainment and work computer and a tablet. Except for me. I don’t want a tablet.

[mankyman6]

I plan on sticking with my desktop for a LONG while. There are many games I enjoy playing on it, along with many games that I will soon hope to enjoy on it.

I’d like to see you run Battlefield 3 on an iPad or whatever the hell this new “tablet Windows” is supposed to be.

[OldDirtyBastard]

@garrthbarrttinn

So the question is, are you two trolling, or just fucking retarded?

That made me smile.
You just so wish it was the case.

@garrthbarrttinn

You’re own videos proved you wrong.

No they didn’t and those are not my own videos

@garrthbarrttinn

Notice how in both videos the people are leaving out their ring fingers and pinky fingers. Typing with 10 fingers is a hell of a lot faster than typing with 6, the only reason they could type so fast is that they are ninja typers and use their ipads too much.

M.E.L.T.D.O.W.N. You simply cannot win, can you?
Can’t you fucking read? iPad is more than enough to satisfy typing needs. Do I have to tell that aside from touch typing, there are numerous other efficient methods like hunt and peck (hint - you now don’t have to look away at the screen), buffering and anything in between? Not to mention ever so popular thumbing? Btw while I speak iOS 5 is preparing to be released, which supports thumbing (vertical positioning included). But that’s a moot point since thumbing is a years old technique

There are other problems to adress as well. For example, your hands have to be in the same location as the screen. If you are going to be typing a lot, you don’t want to be bending your neck to look at the screen but you also don’t want to have your arms way high up so that you can see the screen better. Then there’s the fact that your hands and the virtual keyboard get in the way. For people who aren’t just completely dicking around, this gets in your way.

garthbartin, pulling shit out of his ass and making bold arbitrary statements without any experience on the subject, for the sole reason of keeping his argument alive. Typical.

I’d like to see you run Battlefield 3 on an iPad or whatever the hell this new “tablet Windows” is supposed to be.

That’s what consoles are for.
Inb4 ‘OMG NO AA’ and ‘GAMEPADS SUX for shootahs LOL’ by garthbartin and other usual suspect prepubescents

Lastly, guess what guys? People still use typewriters nowadays.

[Theevilpplz]

How has Surplus Ninja managed to get the first post for the last three pages?

[jerry]

not in the first, or the second, only the third…

[COLOR=‘Black’]50 posts per page ftw

[Jethrosoup]

@OldDirtyBastard

Lastly, guess what guys? People still use typewriters nowadays.

This is a good point. Nobody’s going to make anybody use a touchscreen if they don’t want to.

Typing on a touchscreen is “harder” simply because it’s more foreign to you. How good of a typist were you when you first began on a keyboard? I thought learning how to type was hopeless back when I was forced to. These 11 years of practice have made me better out of necessity. Typing on a touchscreen is (probably) going to be the same way.

But God forbid a business makes products that attempt to appeal to a wider audience.

[sersoft]

the difference is that on a typewriter(winword.exe) you’re using mechanical buttons that cannot fail unless in catastrophic conditions, while on the iPad, you’re transferring electrostatic current through the capacitive touch panel that’s sitting on top of an XGA LCD showing a VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF A KEYBOARD through UNIX and the PowerVR. And this is at the same time as you’re bitching at the windows machine for being unreliable. (because the ipad is so easy to use, it’s easy to forget how to keep a windows mahine from slowing down over time)
iPads suck people.

[Jethrosoup]

I don’t think the advancement of touchscreen technology stops with the iPad, though.

[jerry]

Have you seen the Microsoft Surface multitouch? much better.

[OldDirtyBastard]

Have you seen the Microsoft Surface multitouch? much better.

Surface is a 30-inch (76 cm) display in a table-like form factor, 22 inches (56 cm) high, 21 inches (53 cm) deep, and 42 inches (107 cm) wide.

But yeah, once they make it accessible, lighter, more seamless and cheap - thing will dominate. Surface 2.0 already promises a step in the right direction.

@sersoft

while on the iPad, you’re transferring electrostatic current through the capacitive touch panel that’s sitting on top of an XGA LCD showing a VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF A KEYBOARD through UNIX and the PowerVR.

give a fuck?

[larvie]

How do you ctrl+alt+del with that?

[OldDirtyBastard]

triple 8 finger swipe?

[Luciel]

But seriously, it´s been like 2 pages since the last comment on actual windows 8.

[DrasarSalman]

@jethrosoup

Typing on a touchscreen is “harder” simply because it’s more foreign to you. How good of a typist were you when you first began on a keyboard? I thought learning how to type was hopeless back when I was forced to. These 11 years of practice have made me better out of necessity. Typing on a touchscreen is (probably) going to be the same way.

A keyboard on a touch screen is foreign to me simply because I cant feel the buttons. On a physical keyboard there is gaps between the buttons that sticks out so you know when you have pressed it, but on a virtual keyboard it is like poking a screen.

I also become less concentrated with a physical keyboard because I can look on the screen above while typing. On a tablet or touch screen you have to try to look at both at once unless your brain detects your finger locations by coordinates scaled to the size of the screen.

To be honest I don’t want any aspects of either the lap- or desktop to die just because of habits and what I grew up with using. I don’t want the mouse to die, I don’t want the keyboard to die, I don’t want modding, free source code and freedom to edit or replace any system file to end up as a locked function.

If I grew up in a world were every screen was a touch pad, I’d adapt to that, but I’m not living in such a futuristic world. We live in the beginning of the 21st century so we still use the typewriter keyboard a blob with two buttons and a wheel in our right hand.

Another thought of this “wonderful” future is if the desktop die, what would we play games on? Would we use consoles or sit with a iPhone game on a 16 inch screen? :fffuuu: I’d never use a console for all my gaming, neither play flash games on a touch screen. To say it short, the future of gaming seems dark for a PC gamer.

So somewhere in 2050 we will end up either sitting with a control stick or even a touch screen in our hands playing fps shooters? And once you turn on your device all information and icons are just mashed up your face giving an impression that there is no free space around and no air between? If I’m living in the generation where the desk- and possibly even laptops die out, I’d rather go kill myself.

[OldDirtyBastard]

@DrasarSalman

I also become less concentrated with a physical keyboard because I can look on the screen above while typing. On a tablet or touch screen you have to try to look at both at once unless your brain detects your finger locations by coordinates scaled to the size of the screen.

With a tablet, you’re looking at the screen all the time :retard:

If I’m living in the generation where the desk- and possibly even laptops die out, I’d rather go kill myself.

But seriously:

Nobody’s going to make anybody use a touchscreen if they don’t want to.

No one’s gonna take your obsolete hardware away from you. Just be prepared to be

[TheSuperNova]

Really pumping out the memes there aren’t you olddirty. you may be right, but I hope to god you are not. Desktop PC’s are the only thing I’m interested in when it comes to gaming, though the way it’s going at the moment, it looks as if PC gaming will die out in the not to distant future, though, I’m not sure about desktops being phased out entirely. At least not for a long while yet.

[OldDirtyBastard]

I’m sure you won’t be giving two fucks about gaming in general when that actually, completely 100% happens.

[jerry]

Maybe everyone has switched to consoles then

[Luciel]

I really doubt that will ever happen tbh, in one way or another, PC based gaming will always be there, the only difference will be size of such pcs.