Are upgrades a thing of the past

[irneb]

A recent blog gave me food for thought.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134760-pc-obsolescence-is-obsolete

 

The guy seems to have a point. For the last few years there's not been the light-year strides there used to be in the 90's.

 

So what do you think? May it be that future CAD's might not need the "inevitable" new workstation we were used to since day 1?

[Tiger]

I will answer Yes to not inevitable. There will always be upgrades ofcourse, these things can always be smaller and better and what-not - but the major steps have already been taken.

 

That said, one can never know what will come in the future. There might be (or even most cenrtainly will be) some great breakthrough that we have no idea about right now that will render everything we take for granted now obsolete.

 

Or you know, we'll all move to Mars and everything will run of water. Either way.

[SLW210]

There will always be those that want to upgrade.

 

I haven't upgraded my home computer since 2004 or 2005, my laptop is from early 2000s. I have AutoCAD 2000i for home use and it runs fine.

 

Currently, at work, I run AutoCAD 2011 on a machine designed for Microsoft Office, I manage just fine.

 

Most have always upgraded, merely to upgrade and will continue to upgrade just because they can.