Also, is the base model Macbook still shipping with 8GB RAM? ;)
it’s waterproof and the battery is charged by a hand crank on the side
Now that would be an improvement! Actually, if it ran slower that might be an indication that society might finally be getting their shit together.
Also that software devs stopped throwing compute resources at every problem they’re meant to solve with, y’know, software engineering.
By then we won’t own computers, it will be a subscription model only
Regular people can’t have them. Might do too much of that damn learnin’ on it
Wait. Is WebTV coming back?!?!
And we will be happy*
*Subscription to HappynessXR 60mg not included.
Good enough to run the 2054 version of Dwarf Fortress, which is all I care about.
I’m holding something the size of a mobile phone with no screen or buttons. Specs are that it supports up to 400mb/s NNB, or Native Neural Bandwidth.
Fortunately it’s the newer wireless model so I don’t have to worry about cable management in my hair.
up to 400mb/s NNB, or Native Neural Bandwidth
Do you really think your brain has such high bandwidth? 😇
You’re assuming the brain is still running entirely on wetware.
Society has collapsed.
I bring back slightly big stone and chalk.
I’ll take a desktop instead, thank you very much.
I am the specs… Corporations own everyone and implanted chips into everyone.
The specs are insane, but you can’t use it because the servers it needs to phone home to don’t exist yet.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh
That actually makes the most (if pessimistic) sense: that it’s just a dumb network node that connects via subscription and streams the computed result.
Big Ugh
Thoroughly enshittified.
I’m 100% going to fuck up the task and accidentally bring back an air fryer or some shit
LMAO
No current software would run on whatever it has
The networking is a little similar to today’s WiFi, but on a 400 GHz carrier frequency.
A whole battery of CPU’s is built into the device, liquid cooled (oil, not water), doing AI stuff, not for any heavy computation jobs, but just for processing my sensor’s input (speech, gestures, thoughts & feelings).
No GPU, because the rendering of graphics and speech output is outsourced to a service cloud. That’s also the reason why this device will be totally useless in 2024.
The display screen consists of a flexible frame (retractable for small packing when turned off), that is projecting 3D graphics into the space above the frame. My fingers are doing gestures into that projection.
No loudspeakers. Sound goes either into my earpieces or into some speakers that belong to the room where I am at the moment.
Higher frequency radiowaves actually penetrate objects worse. Today’s carrier grade services are lower frequency generally.
I know that very well. My guess is that the need for high throughput and low latency will become so much more important then. So they will have given up penetrating walls.
This means, a general laptop won’t be able to work everywhere, but still nearly everywhere. Rooms and many outdoor areas will be equipped for the needed wireless networking.
It wants my credit card before it’ll even say what its specs are!
In 2052 Valve released a BCI VR system to compete with Elon Musk’s NeuralLink (which requires you to give 8 hours of your body over to Tesla to build the Cybertruck 2 while your mind is free to wander in VR space), and was a breath of fresh air for all the wage slaves working in the AI prompt generation mines. A week before I arrived in 2054, they just put out a teaser trailer for Half-Life 3 and it looks fucking sweet in brain space (that’s what people are calling this new form of VR).
Linux OS. Valve developed all the hardware. Gaben achieved immortality and all publicly traded hardware and software companies went out of business.
Government is controlled by three super computers.
