Glad I held on to my IBM and Digital Equipment shares.
I bet you posted that from a personal computer.
I personally hate tablets. I already have a smart phone, and a PC. Why do I need to have something in between?
I bet most phone and tablet apps were made on PC’s
Gamers and Simmers will stick with the PC.
I feel like I only own a desktop for the few things I cannot perform — on various websites or complex printing instructions — on an iPad.
Yeah right... sure.
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I like my keyboard. I like the mouse. I like my software. That could change over the coming decade, but it hasn't yet, and isn't likely given that potable technology keeps changing before the average person can learn to take full advantage of the operating systems.
Finally, some of the details of the recent stuff on my blog (x, why?) may have been doodled on an iPad, but the meat of each comic is still down on the PC.
I think people mistake durability for death. The fact is on the PC the technology is very stable, one no longer needs upgrades very often, you can pretty much keep your system until it breaks. Meanwhile the portable markets are built around being disposable, people replace their smartphones with every contract, and often want to replace them more often, and tablets run a similar fast turnover cycle. PCs no longer drive the market, but neither do microwaves, I know plenty of industries nobody thinks are dieing that would love to ship over 300 million units a year.
I have a monster gaming pc, a laptop, a nexus 7 tablet and a win7 laptop. Each have their place, but I expect big rigs to continue to lose market share. I expect laptops and tablets to merge like the asus transformer series.
I have problems trying to create spreadsheets, proposals and other docs on my smartphone. Fingers too big, eyes too bad. Luv my smartphone, but won’t get away from my laptops......... not even for pads.
” As of this year, personal computers no longer consume the majority of the world’s memory chip supply”
That means NOTHING. There are tablets, phones, cars, toys, game boxes, atms, kiosks, switches, routers, etc., all using memory chips. If PCs comprise 40% of usage and the rest fight over the 60%, PCs still are the big dog.
You have an iPhone or iPad? Good luck getting full use out of it without a docking PC or Mac.
Ironically, I am typing this on an iPod Touch. When I do real work (huge databases, audio editing, booklayout) a desktop computer is IT.
the analogy would be akin to saying that the era of the automobile is over because a majority of tires are now used on trucks, segways, bikes, motorcycles, wheelbarrows, lawn tractors, aircraft, trailers and RVs. They COMPLEmENT , not replace.
I got into computers in the first place because I wanted a word processor, to write books and articles.
One of my school friends and I taught ourselves touch typing, many years ago. I can’t imagine using anything but a regular keyboard and mouse, they are so much quicker and more natural.
I spend a lot more time on the internet now than I used to, but I still basically want to type, not go tap, tap with one finger on a screen.
I did go over from desktop to laptop computers, after the memory chips got powerful enough. My laptop sits on my desk, but I can take it with me when I go off somewhere else, and it has enough speed and power so a desktop is no longer necessary.
IPad? No thanks. I’m not sure what I’ll do when I need to trade in my current Windows 7 for a computer with Windows 8, but hopefully that will be worked out by the time it’s necessary. I have found it counterproductive to upgrade systems on an old computer, but I usually like to get the latest system on a new computer. Hopefully Dell or someone will offer the needed tweaks, if Microsoft is too stupid to do it.
Surprise!! So what else was there in the 80's to use those chips in, and what has changed since then? DUH! There's a lot more devices out there now-days.
Besides, people (and businesses) are holding on to their old PC's for longer periods of time now. Heck, I remember a time, long ago, when quite a few people bought new cars every 2 or 3 years.
Even a lot of us gamers are doing more upgrading to our rigs to keep it running and waiting until the old horse just won't run the new stuff at all before shelling out for a new rig.
Glad I held on to my IBM and Digital Equipment shares.
“It’s Official: The Era of the Personal Computer Being Used For Productive Work Is Over”
People like me that spend most of the day lost in Word, Excel, Project, Access, and Visio will still use a desktop, preferably with two large screens attached.
I also believe people like me are becoming a minority.
I travel by air frequently and my trips to the lavatory are always a revelation. Anyone walking by me would find my laptop usually with an Excel spreadsheet up, and often with Project active. I'll walk to the lavatory and soon realize I am the only person on the plane not playing a game, watching a movie, or engaged in some other type of entertainment activity.
Everyone already has PCs. Why buy ram when you already have it?
Sure, just like laptops were going to kill the PC and just like COBOL would be dead and gone by 1985. Tablets have their place, for entertainment, non-developers and non-powerusers.
Of course the state of the World economy hasn’t a thing to do with it./s