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Thread ID: 128755	2013-01-13 06:40:00	Long live the desktop!	ChazTheGeek (16619)	PC World Chat

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1322591	2013-01-13 20:41:00	Video editors use Mac :p Not the ones I know :p And Microsoft and Sony and Valve are all trying to steal you away from the desktop for gaming :) Can't see that happening unless laptops get upgradable graphics cards...	pcuser42 (130)
1322592	2013-01-13 20:49:00	Haven't seen any laptops like that yet :D I am keeping my desktop. Upgradeable, fast and potentially powerful. Can you imagine EA Games or Bethesda Softworks making their flagship game on a laptop or a tablet? The same goes for video editors...	ChazTheGeek (16619)
1322593	2013-01-13 21:43:00	There is a need though to keep backed up data away from the desktop so that it can be retrieved in case of disaster and my computer is destroyed. Yes so very true I just use SATA hard drives without an enclosure and just copy my files to one every month or so, then I store it off premises. Hard drives are quite cheap nowadays.	Digby (677)
1322594	2013-01-13 22:15:00	They have been predicting the death of the desktop in general and PCs for gaming for years. It will never happen.	Agent_24 (57)
1322595	2013-01-14 00:55:00	They have been predicting the death of the desktop in general and PCs for gaming for years. It will never happen. It certainly won't be an overnight thing - network bandwidth being one of the big (current) stumbling blocks - but it is definitely the direction things are going. And EA et. al. don't give a rats arse what platform their "flagship titles" are running on, as long as hordes of punters keep stumping up that cash (which btw, is much easier to police on a tablet or console than on a PC ... )	fred_fish (15241)
1322596	2013-01-14 01:26:00	And of course with slowly dropping sales of desktops, there will be less of an incentive for motherboard and cpu's to keep being redesigned and go faster etc. But the demand for hard drives will keep increasing, as many people now have an external drive - even pink ones for the girls!	Digby (677)
1322597	2013-01-14 01:42:00	PC sales are decreasing, no two ways about it - down 6% last quarter. Smartphone sales exceed those of PCs+tablets. Intel is designing for mobility and low power consumption first and foremost, with desktop processors now being released after their mobile counterparts (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge). the main area for Pc sales is business, and tablets are eroding even that. My two cents? Desktops won't die, but who uses desktops will change. Tablets do most of the things that most people want from a PC, and in a more portable fashion (not to mention, if we're talking laptops, that tablets do it with a better dots-per-inch and resultant clarity of screen), and desktops will be reserved for those who need specialised tasks that desktops can provide - high-end gaming, video editing, virtual machines. I think we're nearly there already - most of the desktops in chain stores are all-in-one, it seems, designed for those without need for much power. Here in NZ, and in Australia, there's a strong culture of DIY or system-builder systems, but it's not as dominant (proportionally) in the US. That system builder culture will keep us going a bit longer. I'm an enthusiast, but my lappy can manage all but one of the games I want to play, these days, and it handles my photoshopping and desktop publishing (better with a 24-inch screen attached). When I need multiple screens, or virtual machines, that's when I head to my desktop - and at work, though I'd use my lappy for that if I could.	Zara Baxter (16260)
1322598	2013-01-14 01:45:00	I think there will always be a market for them. They wont die out anytime soon, we use countless software, surveillance equipment, external modules/hardware all which would not be powered by anything less than a desktop PC.	rob_on_guitar (4196)
1322599	2013-01-14 20:09:00	I like the idea of a kind of 'cloud' computing in the home where the computing horsepower lies in a small desktop located in the basement, ceiling space, or in my case behind the couch. All the connections to everything being wireless I've got all the bits except a PTV3000 to connect to a display in my case the TV [PTV3000 is the latest push-to-TV Widi device reputed to have only 60ms delay] I looked at all-in-one desktops but they don't have the video editing grunt and you can't change the bits such as the screen The black box on the floor in the photo has an i5-3570, HD7750, 8GB, native Wifi and Widi, 2TB, 120GB SSD, 4 x USB3, another 4 x USB2	BBCmicro (15761)
1322600	2013-01-15 01:06:00	I loved my desktop, was a gamer. But no....Dell is in talks now, cause PC just aren't being sold. In another 10 years your children will laugh at the idea you have a large non-portable box attached to wires sitting on a desk. Already tablets and phones are it.	pctek (84)
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