Just curious but does anybody still buy tower computers nowadays?
Deep down, Luddites are happier.
Yes, but not as often. The fact is PC hardware has stabilized, there are no more must have add-ons coming out every couple of months. PCs are microwaves now, you use it until it dies, no more constantly looking for excuses to upgrade.
I bought a Win7 desktop last CyberMonday.
I prefer a desktop for most computing, but I also have a laptop that I use when I am watching TV.
I just bought a new one last year. i7 with 50 million zig-a-watts of ram and a huge 27” monitor for video editing. Can’t do that very well on a tablet.
I bought one not long ago. I have a “workstation” laptop, but when it heats up, it also slows down.
Hard to get some peripherals into a laptop, my desktop has a fiber optic IO card, a 12 channel AtoD acquisition system, a GPIB interface, and two Firewire ports. I swap in and out a couple of sound cards, depending on what I’m doing (a sound card is also a data acquisition system).
It runs faster and cooler than the laptop, and has a bit more memory.
I have a little closet that's converted into a computer room/office.
I have a desk with bobble heads, a pic of Mitt and Ann, Russian nesting dolls, a jeweled snail, a (gasp) land phone, a felt pelican, photo stills of Flash Gordon and Dale Arden in action....and my clumsy computer tower, no longer in style.
This is my own little old-fashioned gal-cave.
Stop in to visit with both me and Ming the Merciless for a cup of coffee and a slice of Martha Washington's Own Creme Cake, LOL.
Leni
I did for my wife. A mini-tower from HP is in the order of $300. It does what she wants with a big screen...:^)
I haven’t bought a tower computer in years. I buy the individual components and build my own computers.
They’re still the way to go for servers and hard-core gaming and multimedia, but for everything else a laptop does just as well and is comparable price-wise.
I used to enjoy building gaming rigs in tower cases. Big tower cases have gone the way of carbonated cars.
I’ll probably need a newer one within the next year or so.
Yes, for 3-D workstations, ftp servers, etc. Laptops are more useful for ordinary work on the go. A desktop will last me about 7 years before I think about upgrading, but I’ll literally wear out a laptop every 12 months.
I bought one a few months ago. I prefer the box that accomodates all sorts of add-on’s. It also is connected to our main tv and stereo. I sometimes use the wireless mouse and the large home theater screen.
But my wife likes her laptop.
I bought one six months ago custom-assembled from CyberpowerPC (Intel i5-2550k processor, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive). We’re probably going to get my wife a replacement for her machine around the end of the year because the one she’s got is one I built for her 4 1/2 years ago and she could stand an upgrade. We both PC game quite a bit so we need to keep our machines fairly current.
At the same time, we also have a decent three-year-old gaming laptop we got from free courtesy of her dad (he didn’t need it anymore) that she uses while she’s working on making jewelry. She also has a Nook Tablet that almost never leaves her side, except when our 6-year-old wants to play some games on it. And we both have Android smartphones.
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Yes,,,
a “tower” is the only computer, including video cards, etc, that can handle Catia V6 and 3D VIA.
The video card requirements for these programmes is too strong for a laptop.
I did, got a quad core with a upper end graphics card and a 2 tb drive last year. Its more of a server, but I bought it to test out multicore programming and server stuff.
My previous three coputere were laptops, but I have diverged into a server, and a smartphone.
I assembled a high end tower computer(win 7-64) strictly for gaming. For everything else I use a MacBook.
Yes. For gaming. Consoles aren't there yet, but I wish they would hurry up. I know MS needs to make money and to do that they need to make new product, but I'm getting tired of having to upgrade to a new OS, while the old one still works fine, just to run the latest in gaming.
I'm still running XP cuz' the game I mostly play, RACE07, runs on it, but the new one coming out only runs on Vista or higher.
Consoles are only a few hundred bucks and you never have to upgrade them and you can access the web with them. A $20 USB KB and a $20 USB mouse, Google docs and gmail, and you're on the internet doing what most people do with a $500 PC + a monitor. A 2006 XBOX 360 will run today's game, but a 2006 2.2Gh dual-core will not. Go figure.
Oh well, I'll soon move my old PC to server status and replace it as my gaming rig with a new one costing around a grand or so, which will probably only be good for about 4 years till games require more power, RAM and video than that PC is capable of. Such is the world of gaming!
Yep, they are the more powerful than any hand held device out there.
Flight Simulator user here. I use FSX, FS9, I have X-Plane but don’t use it much. These softwares need high speed CPU’s, and high-end GPU’s. I’m still running my AMD quad core 2.5, but it’s getting long in the tooth. I bought it refurbished.
My son has a cheap walmart emachine that we have decided isn’t up to the gaming he wants to do, so when I upgrade my flight sim rig, my old one gets passed down, his gets passed down to my daughter, etc. We have a pile of old hardware around here also, most works, some just barely, but I’m too lazy to have a yard sale.