Posted on 08/12/2011 3:39:08 PM PDT by george76
In our increasingly smartphone-and-tablet computing-centric world, one of the computer engineers who helped design IBM's first personal computer, has made it official: The PC is dead.
Thirty years ago, Mark Dean was part of the original team that helped usher in a personal computing revolution when Big Blue announced its PC. On the anniversary of that seminal announcement, Dean said it is time to move beyond the PC. (see: Today is the IBM Model 5150's 30th birthday)
"My primary computer now is a tablet. When I helped design the PC, I didn't think I'd live long enough to witness its decline," Dean, nowadays the chief technology officer for IBM Middle East and Africa, wrote on a company blog. "But, while PCs will continue to be much-used devices, they're no longer at the leading edge of computing. They're going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Not going away from here in my lifetime.
Smartphones and tablets don’t have real keyboards. How can they replace a PC?
“Apple surged past Exxon in value the other day, for a moment anyhow”
Let’s have apple and Exxon shut down for one month each and see which one is the big dog in this world
When the laptop can cheaply compete with the heavy graphics and sim machines, the standard PC may well vanish.
I recall about 1997-98 having an IBM sales rep tell me that by 2001, we’d be replacing all our user desktops with thin clients. How’s that working out?
Now admittedly, I have lots of users on diskless workstations accessing Virtual desktops on servers in the data center, but it’s a very small segment of our overall user base. Many applications just don’t run as well in a virtual environment.
Everybody knows the future.
I am using a laptop at the moment, BUT I an using an external monitor ,mouse and keyboard.
Why? because tiny **** sucks!
A lot of people don’t need the versatility of a pc. Just need something to check emails, do some shopping, etc.
I’ve posted twice to FR on my blackberry and it sucks.
So Elvis is wired now.
Yes.
Often...tiny **** sucks!
Who does this guy think he is? AlGore? ....jeepers
My PC is over 8 years old and I'm trying to figure out to buy another, go laptop or upgrade the old thing....those tablets are too small for me - I'm getting old and blind as a bat....
My kid makes fun of my cellphone.
He claims the buttons are HUGE!
I just bought a new iMac and my son just bought a new Dell i7. Nope, not dead. Don’t think I’d want to play Microsoft Flight Simulator on an iPhone.
It would be best if you stuck to subjects where you have some actual knowledge. I've been an insider on IBM technology for 33 years and your statement is a fairytale.
I can’t see CAD designers and graphics artists migrating to tablets and working with their thumbs.
I may be the odd man out, but I have no desire to write 10 page RFCE’s, create 15 slide Powerpoint presentations, reconcile my bank and credit accounts, and make long-winded posts to internet forums consisting of single run-on sentences using a freaking touch screen keypad!
Still remember the day I bought the HP-35 digital pocket calculator in 1973 for $400.
So much more convenient than my Sun sliderule. Exponential, power and trig functions, wow! What were they going to think of next.
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