I am going to disagree.
Joe user is not going to be doing any real sort of video editing. The average user can't even properly edit still images. Much less do anything with video. Case in point my Aunt. She spends hours drawing things in Microsoft Paint. I installed Ulead ImagePals for her. An older but very capable photo/art program. I picked that one because I had an extra install CD. (I don't pirate programs). She was back to using MS Paint within 2 days. Imagepals was to complicated for her. Do you really think she could handle Video Editing?
No in my opinion Joe User will never be able to handle even any video editing more complicated than cropping parts of clips out, and maybe putting different clips together. If Joe User can't do it then there is no reason for him to buy that 4 GHZ Athlon Thunderbird 7.
Now the other big thing that drives the PC industry is Video games.
There are several problems slowing advancement there.
One of the biggest is that PC makers still don't put 3D cards in computers, and use shared memory when they do. (A few exceptions exist).
Joe User has a Winmodem and AOL. Try playing a real multiplayer online game with either one of those, (much less both).
Video Game graphics have matured and will slow down in their advancement. 2D graphics basically maxed out in the early 90's. (New 2D games really don't look a whole lot better than Super Nintendo games did back then). The same is beginning to happen to 3D graphics also. Compare the quality jump from Doom to Quake, to the difference between Quake and Quake 2. The difference is even more minor in quality between Quake 2 and Quake 3.
The Pentium 166 that I am posting from now, (work computer), serves perfectly for the Internet and document editing purposes that it is used for.
So where is the continued market in making computers faster and faster.
I would love to see clock speeds frozen in place for the next ten years while everything else catches up.
In my opinion the Us government could support half a dozen space agancies if it just cut spending in other areas,(mostly military).
We are never gonna get off of earth if we don't put some serious time effort and money into our space programs.
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I am going to disagree. Joe user is not going to be doing any real sort of video editing. The average user can't even properly edit still images. Much less do anything with video. Case in point my Aunt. She spends hours drawing things in Microsoft Paint. I installed Ulead ImagePals for her. An older but very capable photo/art program. I picked that one because I had an extra install CD. (I don't pirate programs). She was back to using MS Paint within 2 days. Imagepals was to complicated for her. Do you really think she could handle Video Editing?
No in my opinion Joe User will never be able to handle even any video editing more complicated than cropping parts of clips out, and maybe putting different clips together. If Joe User can't do it then there is no reason for him to buy that 4 GHZ Athlon Thunderbird 7.
Now the other big thing that drives the PC industry is Video games.
There are several problems slowing advancement there.
One of the biggest is that PC makers still don't put 3D cards in computers, and use shared memory when they do. (A few exceptions exist).
Joe User has a Winmodem and AOL. Try playing a real multiplayer online game with either one of those, (much less both).
Video Game graphics have matured and will slow down in their advancement. 2D graphics basically maxed out in the early 90's. (New 2D games really don't look a whole lot better than Super Nintendo games did back then). The same is beginning to happen to 3D graphics also. Compare the quality jump from Doom to Quake, to the difference between Quake and Quake 2. The difference is even more minor in quality between Quake 2 and Quake 3.
The Pentium 166 that I am posting from now, (work computer), serves perfectly for the Internet and document editing purposes that it is used for.
So where is the continued market in making computers faster and faster.
I would love to see clock speeds frozen in place for the next ten years while everything else catches up.
In my opinion the Us government could support half a dozen space agancies if it just cut spending in other areas ,(mostly military).
We are never gonna get off of earth if we don't put some serious time effort and money into our space programs.