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- lifeisgoooooood, on 09/10/2008, -0/+40One should have both a Desktop and a Laptop, why miss out on the fun gaming and the portability option :)
- silverzone, on 09/10/2008, -0/+38Now if they could make a laptop as easy to upgrade as a desktop I would agree.
- MacBookForMe, on 09/10/2008, -0/+20That's a very strong point and a very good article, but I do prefer both! (desktop at sweet home and laptop for mobile hectic modern life style and public transport rush hour :)
- BlackJackJester, on 09/11/2008, -1/+16Give me a laptop that has 2TB of RAID5 storage, and can compress a DVD down to a 1gig .avi in under an hour and I'll give up my desktop. Give me a laptop I can fix myself, replace part by part when things wear out. Give me a laptop with 10,000 RPM hard drives.
most of the world would be fine getting around in a 2 cylinder car, but there's a good number of people who crave the V8 - need the horsepower. - BeShirtHappy, on 09/10/2008, -6/+19I do think the desktop computer is fast becoming obsolete. I would be lost without my laptop...
- MacBookForMe, on 09/10/2008, -0/+10...you know, that big box under the table with far too many wires all over...
- Niallgriff, on 09/11/2008, -1/+10I love the hell out of my desktop, give me a laptop with 1.5 TB of storage and dual monitors, then I'm totally willing to switch.
- jcorn1, on 09/10/2008, -0/+9I have to vote for both, depending on my schedule that day.
- Mike668, on 09/11/2008, -0/+7As a video editor, I can tell you they have a long way to go before squeezing an editing bay into a laptop, especially with these becoming more common:
http://www.red.com - mockidol, on 09/11/2008, -0/+6That thing the keyboard plugs into? I thought that was called the modem box.
/sarcasim - Jericon, on 09/11/2008, -0/+6I'd miss my dual 22" monitors too much...
- TunaFishGangsta, on 09/11/2008, -0/+5It's the powerful computer with lots of storage that you wirelessly administer from your laptop.
- pinkpackrat, on 09/10/2008, -1/+6love my laptop--haven't had a desktop since 2003 :-)
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4I am more lost than you. My question is "WTF is a Laptop?" lol
- sq2shooter, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4I haven't used a desktop regularly in three years. And I don't see myself going back to one anytime in the near future. The convenience of a laptop is just unbeatable. I don't game on a computer, so using a desktop for that is meaningless to me. There pretty much is no reason for me to be tied to my office anymore.
- AmyVernon, on 09/10/2008, -1/+5I barely ever use my desktop anymore, though my husband still does.
- QsheiK, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4Get a docking station for your notebook.
- stephhicks68, on 09/10/2008, -7/+11What is a desktop? LOL....
- RipleyIsDead, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4But it will always be nice to have a server to come home to :)
- Lockhart, on 09/11/2008, -0/+342.
- biggsuccess, on 09/10/2008, -2/+5I have a desktop. My husband has a laptop. We get to have both without each having to own two! Of course, I have a smart phone, which I LOVE! - Mary-Lynn
- Rudegar, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2also if people pref a real keyboard mouse and monitor and external storage one can just connect it to the laptop easier with a dock but possible without also
which is kinda why I feel getting a laptop with a screen larger then 14" wide is silly
if i want a bigger screen I'll connect it rather then squeeze the life out of my lap - h0ser, on 09/11/2008, -1/+3I can't imagine using a laptop instead of a desktop. That extra space in front of the keyboard is annoying. I'd never be able to get used to a finger pad to move the pointer around either. Also laptops aren't easily upgradable compared to PC's. You're more likely to buy a whole new laptop instead of just upgrading a specific part of your PC. Another thing that I don't like about laptops is that they are expensive. I wouldn't want to carry around anything that is expensive. Drop it once and it'd break on you, leave it at a table while you go to take a leak and it will be stolen. To me, the computer experience is best at home, where you are comfortable to browse any site you want in private.
I understand if you're a student and you need something to type out your work and to save projects. You don't need a powerful laptop to do that though. - Kakemonstere, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Ehm, sounds like a desktop PC too me, or do you plan walking around with an 19" screen, keyboard with your laptop?
- carl25, on 09/11/2008, -2/+4not for gaming it isn't
- MScrip, on 09/11/2008, -1/+3Exactly. While laptops can be powerful enough to edit hi-def content... nothing beats sitting at an editing workstation, in front of a couple of monitors hooked to a huge RAID-Array.
- spoonsman, on 09/11/2008, -2/+4Buried because the author of that article sucks at grammar.
- esc27, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2For "mainstream use", e.g. web surfing, typing, sure, mobile PCs will largely replace the desktop in time, but for anything else, the old desktop won't disappear for quite a while, and even as they do it will be with the laptop pretending to be a desktop (external mouse, keyboard, hard drive, monitors, docking station, etc.)
Desktops won't replace "servers" because they are designed for entirely different needs. Good servers, real servers are designed for stability, ease of repair, networking, and maximum up time. They have redundant power supplies and other components, and are often built to fit in and work with the technology available in server rooms and data centers.
Typical desktops are built with many single points of failure, designed mainly for direct human interface, not remote access and providing services. - antdude, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2But are they cheap as high end desktops?
- NoozeHound, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2I wonder of he could write it again in an even more dull style.
- Jude007, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Laptop sales will always remain high, people have to get a new laptop primarily because the old one breaks.
- trollick, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Apples are outpacing oranges.
- theaceoffire, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Or anything for the desktop and anything for the laptop, since data is pretty easy to move from almost all OS's to all others.*
(*So far. Nothing is known about OS7 from windows, so can't make any claims that they won't lock it down.) - Kelmon, on 09/14/2008, -0/+1Probably not but given that a desktop is, by definition, pretty much nailed to the desk a laptop is a much more practical solution.
- arensquared, on 09/12/2008, -0/+1Desktop will soon be gone... Today, Laptops are overtaking the sales
- richduper, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Yes, it's hard to take him seriously as an expert at computers with all the grammatical errors.
- Rudegar, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1hhmmm no I mean when one don't have to carry it one can connect peripheral for comfort
- Rudegar, on 09/11/2008, -1/+2maybe with one of the upcoming external gpu's
and external keyboard mouse and monitor one could
keep gaming on even an older laptop if the cpu is up for it - Darksoul, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1 Don't know why you where dugg down but then again most people on digg don't want to know the truth heh what ever.
- Kelmon, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1In days gone by I have shunned laptops because they were slow. These days, however, laptops are so fast that I can't think of a good reason to buy a desktop. I've been converted to laptops for my current and past computers and I'm not going back.
- antdude, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Desktops = cheaper and faster than notebooks/laptops.
- TechMike, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1My office has become 99% laptop: lower power consumption means savings on electricity, and less excess heat to get rid of with costly air conditioning. Laptops are the "green" alternative.
- chrismartintx, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1what about corporate terminals... why would big companies buy a bunch of laptops that will NEVER be moved & have absolutely no need to be.
- richduper, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1I don't think the author has a clue, the demise of the desktop has been forecast by many who use computers for limited functions, like mobile internet access. Laptops are fine for the casual user, or even the business user, however many other specialties need the customization ability of desktops. Desktops will not likely replace servers, servers will continue to be developed as servers, if anything, the trickle in technology is downward from servers to desktops. Furthermore, until the cooling needs of all high speed processing chips like the CPU and GPU can be met in a portable package, gaming and some other functions cannot reasonably be expected to cross over to the laptop. Design changes to accommodate replaceable graphics and audio cards will need to be made to notebooks before they will ever replace the desktop.
- scumblz, on 09/14/2008, -0/+1I really dislike it when these authors use stupid phrases like "...the one that will officially declare the death of the desktop as we know it." Please stop trying to issue us these potential outcomes as backing for your opinion about the future of a specific type of computing. You're obviously an intelligent person, so why would you even begin to think that desktops will forever be dead as we know it?
- ronmexico, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1It's a pretty bold prediction saying the future is in mobile computers when the article is about laptops outselling desktops. That is some outward thinking!
- carl25, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1***** you are right
- jamshid, on 09/24/2008, -0/+1Who knows, but I think phone-sized mobiles are definitely what everyone will have and that's the only computer a lot of people will have. I guess we're already there, but even office workers and students won't need a laptop. They will just plug their mobile into a screen/tablet and keyboard, or if everything they do is web based the screen and keyboard can house all the computer they need. Most everyone will need servers though, always on and always at home, for file storage, peer-to-peer, home entertainment, who knows. Maybe even games if that doesn't all move to console. I don't know what the difference is between a desktop and server, especially when a fault tolerant cluster will fit in a space for a desktop. Will people need a general purpose computer, and why in laptop form? That Zittrain book talks about this kind of stuff, how we might be living in a golden age of control over our devices.
- h0ser, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1carrying around a portable keyboard and mouse loses the whole convenient portability that laptops bring. Unlesss you're a woman and have a big ass purse to carry that crap around in. If you aren't a portable person and you just leave your computer at home, then having a laptop isn't bright at all.
I wasn't saying that not bringing your laptop with you was an advantage, I said i wouldn't want to carry something expensive around outside when something could easily happen to it. - Darksoul, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1No they can't play most games and shure as hell not quite well you have the battery issue if its not plugged in and you have compatibility issues and unless you go for a gaming laptop which you can grantee you are going to pay well over two grand its just not worth it yes there are alot of cheep laptops out there now but alot of them have very ***** graphics cards and they can never do what their pc counter parts can do. No doubt one day laptops will be able to do what desktops can but it wont be for a very long long time.
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