Just curious but does anybody still buy tower computers nowadays?
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The market has changed. There are many things you can do on portable devices that you once could only do on a desktop.
It’s not a collapse, it’s just an evolution of the market. The portable devices we are buying still need computer chips.
I think I suffer from computer hoarding. I’m ashamed to list all the hardware I have in the home, from tower to webbook and everything in between.
I used to use a tower, but in recent years a laptop has enough memory and stuff so you don’t really need one for most of the things I do. So I use a laptop, although I usually keep it on my desk.
On the other hand, I touch type, and I do NOT want to use any computer that doesn’t have a decent keyboard. I hope that they will modify Windows 8 so it will be usable with a keyboard without doing all sorts of fiddling with it first.
I suspect that probably computer makers like Dell will provide whatever is needed to give you that option on their laptops. I do NOT have much use for an iPad, which is hard to write on and hard for my eyes to read large texts.
I will probably be buying a tower within the next year or so, just have to save up the money and everyone knows how that goes these days. This computer is winding down and cannot keep up with the media-photos, videos, sound, etc. One concern I have is everything transferring over.
I have no intention of ever purchasing a carry-around computer smaller than a laptop-they are difficult to read and I tend to lose stuff. Heck I cannot keep track of my cell phone half the time. Way prefer the desk top and large monitor.
I can speak from experience when I say that PC hardware refresh cycles get extended when money is tight. Businesses judge that a four-year-old PC is good enough for now, so they aren't going to replace it yet. Besides, most businesses are ignoring Win8 just like they did Vista.
We've seen this same kind of market softness before, and a good economy always brings demand back. Tablets are part of the equation, but there aren't many users who are actually replacing a desktop with one.