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A lot of people use workstations. As described in the article, they are more powerful and many people need that power. You may have a specific, limited set of
by politelemon 4y ago
A lot of people use workstations. As described in the article, they are more powerful and many people need that power. You may have a specific, limited set of anecdotal data that you're using to ask that question rhetorically probably?
- sbf501 4y agoYep. All I have is have anecdotal data. I believe desktops are on their way out. The trend has been happening for ~30 years. Even Android is working on virtual phone OS. The only applications I've encountered that need a workstation are: Audio Engineering, Video Editing, and 3D mock-up (prior to sending to render farms). All arts. What are some other examples? Everything I know about science and engineering (academic and commercial) uses a cloud/farm/distributed.
- mattnewport 4y agoGame and VR development generally need powerful desktops both for programmers and content creators. Our entire team of (fully remote) VR developers have high end gaming desktops. If cloud workstations worked well they'd be interesting for us but none of them really support VR development at the moment.