Comments on: Saturday Soapbox: The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live The Desktop!

By: vincent_darkwood

vincent_darkwood — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:55:32 +0000

I love my desktop and for me a laptop will never be the same as a desktop

By: Nahu

Nahu — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:16:09 +0000

Really well put, I completely agree with your prediction. Most people dont need a computer nearly as powerful as the current laptops, especially for their on-the-go needs.

Still, we both come to the conclusion that the desktop will transform to a media center/server.

Some say consoles are the ones to take that place, I think they are both going in the same direction. It’s gonna be really interesting when this convergence comes to its critical phase.

By: sol d-_-b

sol d-_-b — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:01:02 +0000

I think desktops will always be around, especially in academics and tech centric areas, but I love my laptops. I have a MacBook Pro and an HP media center laptop. They do every I want them too. I edit video, encode, rip dvds, web design.

Yes it may be expensive on the initial purchase, but I can take it everywhere. If really wanted a bigger screen I could hook it up to my TV.

As for expansion, you have a multitude of PCMIA slots, new sata cards, and firewire.

Like desktop, you will have a laptop for every type of person, but at the end of the day. I think the average user will have netbooks. They are affordable and most uses surf the internet/watch some video/word processing and email.

By: X-Pipes

X-Pipes — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:40:14 +0000

Actually I think what’s going to happen is laptops are going to disappear, in favor of netbooks and high-capacity “media center”-type desktops.

Lets face it… Netbooks do most things people buy laptops for superbly and for a very lo price. And desktops will always be more powerful, efficient and less of a hassle than high-powered laptops.

So while I’ve heard this “the desktop is dying” arguments a lot lately (even my dad has mentioned it), I’m holding fast to my prediction. Eventually all there’ll be are netbooks and desktops; with laptops becoming more of a “luxury” for people who are always on the move and NEED, are willing to carry and care after, a big screen, high-power, high-capacity, portable desktop.

By: Khaim

Khaim — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:25:38 +0000

I have a very very very veeery big complaint against laptops: very poor/low-end video cards. And rellying on them on video-rendering is rather inconvenient for me, not to mention to capture video from tape-formats. Anyone who says that desktops are disappearing early tomorrow must be looking for some atention.

By: Kuroneko

Kuroneko — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:50:22 +0000

i personally love my desktop even if its a bit outdated it still does the job… i favor it over laptops ’cause of the battery dependency, the heating and the upgrading issues…

my PC has replaced my TV and DVD player… i barely touch them anymore…