Intel Corp (INTC)

[Colonel Sanders]

I plan to always have a decent desktop as the foundation of my home computing setup, but am much more open minded to buying cheaper portable devices.

So for me what that means is that I have an i5 3570K, moderately overclocked to 4Ghz, paired with a fast Intel SSD, and about 12+ TB of Hard Disk space, in a tower case.

If recent releases by Intel is any guide, I doubt I will be feeling the need to upgrade the CPU & motherboard on this system for many years to come.

The only trigger for me to upgrade the CPU/motherboard will be when a future game like a Half Life 3/4/5, won't run adequately, due to the CPU being not powerful enough.

Any encoding or whatever I do that takes a long time, whether it takes me 1 hr or 2 hrs, just isn't a big enough motivator to go through the hassle of setting up a new system, as my primary desktop system.

Now I expect that various Airmont/Goldmont products will look very interesting to me, as something like the BayTrail based Asus Transformer, is the closest thing I have seen to the perfect portable device for me, but I want to see it come with more ram, more SSD storage and higher screen resolution.