Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer for $59

Re:Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer f... by olegkikin on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:18PM (#7634946)

Video and games are the only consumer tasks (that I can think of) that drive the consumer technology further. Pretty much everything else already runs fast on the previous gen hardware.

When it comes to video, even my wife's slow netbook can play 1080p MKVs without stuttering. 4K can be played and recorded by current gen hardware.

So it looks like games will drive the hardware improvements.

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Re:Odroid-U3: A quad-core 1.7GHz ARM single-board computer f... by jodrellblank on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @03:41PM (#7636404)

At the moment, maybe, but look at the recent post about a plugin that does automatic background OCR for every image in a browser.

That kind of "processing the ambient environment all the time, just in case you might need some part of it" is going to thrive when computing power allows it.

Permanent background face recognition, just in case there's a face in any picture. Permanent background face identity checking just in case you know them. Permanent audio speech recognition. Permanent searching of all sorts of things to find contextually relevant information. Permanent local analysis trying to work out "what's going on" and "what mood are you in" and "what are you working on" and "is now a bad time to interrupt?".

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