Weekend Open Forum: Desktops doomed to irrelevancy?

[matrix86]

I would never give up a desktop. I use my desktop at home and I use my netbook when i'm out, and use my smartphone for when i'm in the car or at the store and need a map or need to check the grocery list.

But would I ever replace a desktop or would I never ever buy one again? No. And do you really think businesses are going to buy smartphones and laptops for their business to replace their outdated desktops? Hell no.

 

[Archean]

@jjbeard926
Toyota Prius averages about 48 mph a gallon, and just to drive home my point VW Polo Bluemotion would do something like 74 mph a gallon on diesel (no hybrid stuff). It was just an objective observation nothing more. On the more subjective note, its one ugly looking beast. Regards.

 

[jjbeard926]

@jjbeard926
Toyota Prius averages about 48 mph a gallon, and just to drive home my point VW Polo Bluemotion would do something like 74 mph a gallon on diesel (no hybrid stuff). It was just an objective observation nothing more. On the more subjective note, its one ugly looking beast. Regards.

That's a truly unusual statistic but a good point. There are better options out there than hybrids, so point taken.

Did you mean to say MPH/gallon or did you mean miles/gallon? Because the highest rated miles/gallon diesel I'm finding is rated at 34 (new that is, I'm not looking at older models). I'm not able to find any information on mph/gallon on any site.

Anyway, I find all of this interesting, not trying to be confrontational just looking for info I find cool. Thanks for clearing up what you meant though.

 

[captaincranky]

Paranoia Has Begun to Set In......

Google won't send armed thugs to take away our desktops,...um, er,.....will they...?

 

[ravisunny2]

Nah.

They'll just post a candid photo. You and your love (the desktop), in a compromising position.

 

[jjbeard926]

Nah.

They'll just post a candid photo. You and your love (the desktop), in a compromising position.

Now THAT's funny! It's funny because it's true! LOL

 

[captaincranky]

Nah.

They'll just post a candid photo. You and your love (the desktop), in a compromising position.

Ouch, remind me to never buy a monitor with a web cam.

 

[jotaprimero]

The mobile and portable computers are filling a need for portability. But Desktops are there for continuity and stability. In fifteen years....perhaps!

 

[jordierocks94]

I see the expansion of computer users who, like me, have both a desktop and a laptop far into the future. Portability at home and outside the home will remain, I believe, key, while the work-horse, durability of the desktop will IMHO keep it around for years to come. Just like T.V. did not replace radio, and home movie watching hasn't supplanted the movie theater experience yet -- there is enough of a market for all providers to share. That's my $ .02 worth.

 

[chillitwo]

as long as we have homes with a desk ,the desktop will live.
it will transform but never die.

 

[ravisunny2]

A butterfly will come out of the cocoon.

 

[Guest]

Until mobile devices get an input method that replaces a full keyboard and a way to display as much information as my Dual Monitor desktop then I do not think so.

I love the Itouch but I only use it for occasional surfing and would not want to have to type a lot on it.

Also with a laptop you do not have great ergonomics and will easily end up with injuries if using 8 hours a day, day in and day out!

 

[Guest]

clrabbit:

"day a mobile device can do what I do on a desktop,
is the day I need a more powerful desktop"

best
answer

Exactly how will they get us to carry around a printer? They can't.

So eventually after you used you 'mobile' to write your resume, you end up at your desk
next to your printer.

While your there to print-out your resume:

You connect your 19 inch screen to your 'mobile' (to see it life size, before you waste paper)
You see a spacing mistake,
So you plug in your 'keyboard' to the 'mobile' (to edit quicker)

While your printing out your resume.

Your dad comes around, very curious.
Whats wrong dad ? You ask.

"When did you buy a new desk-top?"

 

[captaincranky]

I agree with you guest completely.

However, I thought it was this thread that had been doomed to irrelevancy, or had died of old age.

The thread is dead, long live the desktop....!

 

[h2kproduction]

In my country, desktops are still used widely.
Because the price of those mobile computers are a little too high, only a small number of out population can buy them (it's the problem of poor countries). In addition, mobile PC aren't durable as desktops, so I don't think desktops will be replaced soon.