How long until OEM no longer produce prebuilts and component

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Until non-shit mini-itx builds like pic related are possible

Raven ridge from amd will hopefully make this possible. Anything bigger than pic related is considered clunky and ancient to most.

>>62161323
unfortunately this

normies ruin everything

>>62161310
A long, long time, considering how many units companies like Dell move.

>>62161310
I don't think the desktop (or at least the laptop) will be dead for quite some time. it may become completely controlled (all components on a chip, no mobo, or something very integrated, with choice of botnet OSes or open source), but it can't die until you can code, play games (high performance games), or type office documents on a mobile/tablet with the same speed and level of productivity as on a desktop.
at such a point, if it's ever reached, OEMs, because they can't sell, will just collapse and merge and get bought by others, until there's only one or two that sells niche desktop hardware. then eventually desktops will be gone too.

I can see two other things that could make it happen suddenly. an energy crisis that necessitates using low-power devices, or some war or other event that really ruins the grid and makes electricity an unreliable utility (kind of like power in the third world, intermittent, unreliable, and unpredictable).
also, if kids forget how to use, build, or care for a desktop and grow up averse to using one, that can make them die too, but that will take much longer.

>>62161323
Can any of the current CPUs do 4k video with their IGPU??? I might build something that small if there is. I don't play video games so all I need is 4k video.

>>62162308
AMD A12-9800 is the best bet. Although it'll be a stopgap until the Zen+Vega counterpart shows up.

>>62162308
What do you mean "do"? Decode, scale and render on screen in time?

>>62162645
Watching 4k videos. I don't do any work on the computer.

>>62161310

Gaming on PC keeps it alive. That's about all. Thankfully, that train isn't ending any time soon. The PCMR propaganda has helped too. Make the plebs feel like shit and boost PC sales.

>>62162832

Gaming on PC might come to an end in a near future as consoles keep closing the gap, giving equivalent perfomance at a lower price tag. Hobbysts shouldnt be taken into account in any situation whatsoever.

It just hasnt happened yet because nobody figured out how to replace mouse and keyboard for shooters and at the same time bring MOBAs and MMORPGs to vydia gaems. Steam knows its bound to happen.

To be honest computer gaming has always been one decent controller away from extinction.

High performance computing (beyond gaymes) will keep desktops alive, the low end will die out, the midrange will get gimped. In a decade desktops will be niche products.

>>62162884

The year of the Linux Desktop is just around the corner too, eh? Game consoles are already about on par with PC gaming for the vast majority, but PC gaming is bigger than ever.

>>62162884
cant they just make it that you plug mouse and keyboard into console?

>>62161355
fortunately the server market still exists and is growing and you can build desktops out of server components.

>>62162884
In terms of technical power, PC's have only expanded the gap to consoles, especially in recent years. Even the weakest budget gaming PC that's using current generation parts will perform equally, or outperform the most powerful consoles of today. What's keeping consoles "equivalent" is that it's much easier to optimize games for the consoles than for PC's, and that very few games are PC exclusive now since most of them are made with the consoles in mind. And when they are PC exclusive, they are generally low spec to reach as wide an audience as possible.

>>62162938
>game consoles are already on par with pc gaming.

Nice bait fella