How fast will PCs be a decade from now ?

Answer 1

I would imagine in the terahertz!

Answer 2

I suspect that there is no way to know that; Also, the tasks being done may be radically different, in structure, not necessarily in content.
The Speed issue is basically, PCs for ten years have been getting almost expoenentially faster, but you can't have that kind of increase indefinitely, it has to peak somewhere in current architecture.
Developments, and hypethetical developments like the "Quantum Chip" may make computing radically different. And at the point that Computers start making seriously Good PCs, then maybe the PC as we know it will not be here; So, if that happens, the question becomes irrelevant since we have nothing to compare the current type of PCs with whatever is coming down the pipe

Answer 3

For users: It will be as fast as they are today, the PCs become faster and the operating systems and programs become bigger and slower wherefore the user does not really notice it.

But just looking at the figures: the PC of today are at least a 1000 times faster than the first generation PC (processor and memory) for the hard-disk slightly less times due to the mechanical part.

What you should ask is the lookalike..... size....

Answer 4

Hey,

Like one of the previous posters said, there's no way to tell. Intel is coming out with a processor that is going to get away from FSB (front side bus) standard and they're going to move on to bigger and better things. Look how long it took them to get from Dual Core process to Quad Core. Who knows what's in store for us next? Only the developers working on it know.

Regards,

Brandon