Last week, as part of a series of editorials, we discussed the idea of the PC as we know it potentially going away as technology continues to converge upon mobile devices. Many, many commenters took this to mean that we thought PC desktop style experiences were going to vanish in exchange for highly disposable mobile apps. In actuality, all we were ever trying to suggest is that as mobile devices get faster, for most people it won’t make a whole lot of sense to have a dedicated personal computer when the brains of your mobile device can do all the same things when hooked up to the peripherals that arguably play a way more important role in the usage patterns people think of when they imagine how you use a desktop computer for gaming or productivity purposes. If you’re playing a game on a large LCD display, using a keyboard and mouse, does it really matter if it’s a mobile device that’s powering it all?
Last week we were largely talking in hypotheticals, but as of this morning’s Microsoft press conference, they’re effectively doing exactly what I was talking about. Microsoft is on the verge of releasing the Microsoft Display Dock. The way it works is practically exactly what I described, in that you plug your phone into the Display Dock which then has three USB ports for peripherals along with both HDMI and DisplayPort for video out.
Once you do that, you get the full Windows 10 desktop experience, controlled via a keyboard and mouse with all the Windows desktop functionality you’re used to like keyboard shortcuts, the task bar, etc. Cooler yet, this whole desktop experience is totally independent of everything going on with your phone. You can grab your phone, open other apps, take a phone call, play a game, or whatever else you want and whatever you’re doing on the desktop side is totally uninterrupted.
Is Microsoft’s top-end Lumia 950 going to be fast enough to play PC desktop style games? Probably not, but this is the most concrete, real world example that we’ve seen that this is where we’re headed. Hell, if I could plug my phone in to a Display Dock-like accessory and play League of Legends, I’d have no reason to even own a proper PC anymore. Either way, both the price and release date of the Display Dock (along with most of the other stuff Microsoft announced) haven’t been revealed yet. I can’t wait to try this out and see what it looks like after a few years of refinement and hardware iterations.
Definitely go with a RIP Maglor design.
Why RIP? Have you given up hope on the Cats return? I have not and would juz like
😻"OMG! THAT INSTABUY!"😻
Are you interested in selling a hoodie . I would buy one fall is here and winter is around the corner
Where's the deep V option??
Unfortunately the only downside of Amazon Merch is the shirt selection is somewhat limited at this time.
Awesome! Just bought one.
An 8-bit might be cool!
Perfect to pick up girls on friday evenings ! :)
A Mahler cat t-shirt would make my year.
*maglor
😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😂👏🏾👍🏽👏🏾👍🏽👏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏾🙌🏾😁
Instaboughted!
I done bought it, along with other things on amazon to get free shipping...
Should sell a hoodie for all the hipsters.
I would Mos Def instabuy hopeing for diff colors and diff sizes
Yes yes.
Lol American Apparel filled for bankruptcy. The also take a loss of about 29 million a year if not more. Very uncool.
I like TA, so I'll grab the official version.
*They
They also make some of the most comfortable shirts/hoodies anywhere, IMO. So who really cares if they filed for bankruptcy? That doesn't even mean they're going out of business haha
I would buy a maglor instabuy cat shirt.
I would even buy the TA shirt with it, to get free shipping for my maglor cat shirt. :p
Woooooo!
MAGLOR! Come back.. 😭
Bought one! Stoked to wear it
Between all the awesome games I want to buy that have recently launched and TA dropping an official shirt this is the worst time to be unemployed. Grawh!
Instabuy on a white shirt would be worthy. Does RPG Reload have a logo? I could go for Musgrave's baby sprawled across my chest.
"I could go for Musgrave's baby sprawled across my chest."
That sounds so... WRONG.
I would love to be able to buy TA stickers too, if we could get those through Amazon along with our shirts that would be awesoooooome!
https://www.stickermule.com...
and
https://www.stickermule.com...
Why did my comment get deleted? All I said was that I'd bought one and was waiting for it to be shipped to me in the uk?
Either way glad to have a TA t shirt coming my way.
Our auto-spam filter is super-sensitive. Since it's the weekend, no one with the ability to pull things out of the filter is around. Sorry!