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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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1322601	2013-01-15 01:20:00	Dell's sales are down more than 20% year on year, which is ...time for drastic action. I've heard the plan is for them to go back to being a private company, via private equity firm.	Zara Baxter (16260)
1322602	2013-01-15 02:38:00	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. Maybe if Dell and others stopped selling underperforming junk or well performing but ripoff systems they would be OK. Any PC gamer with half a brain will build his own machine, and won't go near Dell etc. Even if he starts out with a branded machine he'll likely quickly go down the DIY route as soon as he needs to upgrade. Tablets and phones are useful for other things but good luck trying to play any good FPS game on some little 10" tablet with no mouse and a puny graphics chip. Game consoles might work OK performance wise (for a while, but they get outdated quickly) but FPS games suck on a console controller. You need a mouse, unless you're retarded and enjoy inferior controls. Everything else like light guns or simulators with 360 degree screens are too restricted or expensive and complicated for mass market. For many types of games, touchscreens don't work. Only time I see the PC desktop declining for gaming would be if the mouse\keyboard\monitor is replaced with some kind of direct brain connection and full-matrix-style virtual reality. But you'd probably still have a big machine behind the scenes to do all the processing anyway, and such an interface would be useless for anything else, so likely you would still have a normal monitor, keyboard and mouse for all other tasks.	Agent_24 (57)
1322603	2013-01-15 04:53:00	:thumbs: Well said. Totally agree with you!	ChazTheGeek (16619)
1322604	2013-01-15 05:02:00	yes PC gamers will always buidl their own. Mums and dads are goign to buy tablets from Noel Leamings etc Dell need not panic. They just have to accept lower PC sales are hear to stay. They will still sell lots to the corporate market etc. Its just that corporates make their machines last as long as they can. They don't need to upgrade every 3 years.	Digby (677)
1322605	2013-01-15 05:41:00	I think the point here is that the desktop won't die because there are people out there (gamers, video editors) who do need all that power ;) Agree. LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1322606	2013-01-15 05:57:00	Theres still plenty of people that cant stand using tablets or other smaller devices. Several places I do work for, they have either ipads or some form of android tablets, and while they are ok for doing basic stuff, actually using one to do serious work is a PITA, screens to small, to fiddly etc. Try opening two or more spread sheets or word documents side by side on a tablet -- not good.	wainuitech (129)
1322607	2013-01-15 06:19:00	I think like cellphones maybe many would be touchscreens ... computers might be the more stylish media slices and perhaps even for gaming that technology may be so good that maybe interchangeable PCIe cards would be fixed into the media slices .... So computers may be limited to servers and IT professionals ... and of course tablets for the many others, maybe they could teether to the big TV wirelessly and one of those silicon keyboards ...	Nomad (952)
1322608	2013-01-15 06:38:00	I have just designed the perfect thing for Windows 8. Its a normal keyboard (without the numeric keypad) and maybe without the function keys, but definitely without those media keys at the top. Then at the top of the keyboard where those keys are is a small touch screen (which mirrors what is on your main screen) which you use to operate Windows 8 and the actions etc come up on your main screen just like normal. With today's technology it may not be too dear, and everything would at your finger tips. Just send me the royalty checks.....	Digby (677)
1322609	2013-01-15 06:55:00	In my opinion touchscreens are only good maybe for really small devices like phones, and public things like vending machines. You can't tell me someone is going to do work all day on an iPad with virtual keyboard! They will go insane due to the rubbish ergonomics. If you have the thing propped up on the table, you need to give yourself gorilla arm to use it. If you avoid gorilla arm by putting it on your lap, you crick your neck instead. And either way, you cover the screen in greasy streaky finger marks! You could avoid both by propping it up and using a physical keyboard, but then why not just get a laptop?	Agent_24 (57)
1322610	2013-01-15 07:44:00	My Desk Top is used for accounts, job sheets, orders, cloning drives etc. I do the web work on my lap top so I can watch TV while I do it in the evenings, and for the Email.	mzee (3324)
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