Gartners Top Ten Prediction

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Gartner analysts took out their crystal balls and came up with a list of predictions--relating to technology and economics......

This is the number six on the list....

6. Moore's Law continues to hold true through this decade
Gartner gives Moore's Law, which posits that processor power doubles every 18 months, a 70 percent chance to continue unabated through 2011. Gartner projects that by 2008 the typical desktop computer will have 4 to 8 CPUs running at 40 GHz, 4 to 12 gigabytes of RAM, 1.5 terabytes of storage, and 100Gbit LAN technology. By 2011, processors will clock at 150 GHz and 6 terabytes of storage will be common. And, there are numerous technologies such as nanotube transistors and spintronics that could jump the next hurdle when CMOS reaches the end of its run, Claunch said.


How do you see this coming through?

For the complete list go to:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stor...885337,00.html

[CKnight]

<quote author = "Bill Gates" year = "1981">
640k is enough memory for anybody
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The question now Cknight is what do you think is enough?

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It's directly proportional. You'll never have enough RAM. As soon as an amount becomes the norm, programmers start writing applications to utilize it.

Not that they're accomplishing more by doing this, it just allows them to write sloppier code. No need to conserve memory when it's available to you by the gig load.

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I guess its a case of to each his own!