'The Desktop is (pretty much) dead'

[tomekh]

This doesnt need a description...

 

https://community.csc.com/community/cio-engage/blog/2013/03/28/the-desktop-is-pretty-much-dead?utm_campaign=G-GBD-OT-OT-AdsOutBrainPilot&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=ocpc

[qwertywarrior]

i read it as

the desktop is pretty much deaf

 

 

EDIT

100th time ive read these

 

ive read these since friggen 2007

[Excon]

Why do people keep bringing this up? It's going to be a long time until it is dead.

[Andrew0472]

it would be dead if sales were forecasted to decrease, its staying steady. There will always, always be a market for desktops lol 

[xAcid9]

Currently posting this using a desktop.

[SSOB]

Looking at only sales is not enough , as desktops are getting faster and faster there is a decreasing demand of upgrading , for most office tasks a 300euro pc with windows XP is sufficient.

[Matsy]

The desktop won't go away any time soon, it will most likely just "evolve" into a power center tucked away somewhere,  for things around your home which then draw on the power of that one machine to do w/e.

[Safyle]

really????

[Ethnod]

Since when is this news? People have been getting this wrong for almost a decade... plus, its not even a news article....  <_<

[samuel]

Any tablet or phone is just too slow for me, and that's all. The desktop will always be a step ahead on anythibg else. It will die when quantum computing becomes available but that's happening in a cuple decades. Even then, an AC powered device will have 2-3 times more clock frequency EXACTLY as of today.

[Goldilock]

I can only LOL, and hail to all mobile gaming fanboy sarcasm.

[DarkEcho]

Desktops in general may be decreasing, but people like us are causing the increase in enthusiast grade PC (parts) sales. So PC gaming is on the rise basically.

 

GO us!

[Mooshi]

"Sure, you still see them around the office, but make no mistake: Desktop computers are the equivalent of dinosaurs in the days after Earth was struck by a large meteor. They were still there, but they were the walking dead, doomed to eventually vanish."

 

Scuse my brashness, but what do you think things are designed on, you jackass? Certainty not on a tablet.

[ericlee30]

Personally I will never make mobile anything my main device. they just do not have enough power that quenches my thirst, only desktops can be made to have enough power to take on anything you throw at it, untell mobile ends up the same way,(which will be a long time from now) considering that on the mobile side right now and for years to come, they will continue to worry more about lower power consumption more then raw power.

[FakezZ]

Yes of cource pc shipments are going down. Because everyone builds his pc these days. If they counted desktop PARTS sales, then we all know the numbers would quite easily surpass the tablet and laptop sales...

[Chivpcgamer]

Pc gaming is getting bigger and bigger, more young people are getting into pc's, its sold itself very well because of great tech channels and great comparison videos. Young kids are watching and thinking man i want the best too, i wanna have a better machine than my friends ps3/4. Then they in turn want one aswell. Gpu cycles have never stopped, cpu cycles have never stopped etc. why would they? People will always want custom systems and expandability. Its cool! Intel have talked about integrated cpu with mobos but i just cant see that being the end, because they are still desktops, the gpu market will expand upon that i think to offer the consumer a chance to customize

[mr moose]

I don't know what's worse, the fact that these guys don't know how to interpret statistics or that they don't have a basic grasp of the industry they report on. :rolleyes:

 

There are multitudes of reasons for these statistics to be the way they are. To come to the conclusion that the demise of the desktop PC is the cause is, in my mind, akin to concluding that optic or DSL broadband connections are doomed because over 50% of all internet connections are mobile. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Chivpcgamer]

Great point

[TechFan@ic]

The traditional desktop for reading your email & browsing the internet is pretty much dead, for power users & gamers the desktop remains the holy grail.

[Stonep11]

The traditional desktop for reading your email & browsing the internet is pretty much dead, for power users & gamers the desktop remains the holy grail.

This. Practically 90% of the stuff I do on my PC I could do on a tablet just as easily. Watching YouTube, checking Facebook, reading emails all I can do on an iPad with no difficulty. However, if I need to type a long document, use Excel (not basic use) for work, or play Warcraft 3 with friends, those applications are not to intense for a tablet, they just don't work well for it. That is not even mentioning playing Battlefield or other demanding games. Sent from mobile because it isn't a bad medium to do so.

[Old Man Snail]

For most home users yes. I'd happily recommend a 15" laptop for their needs (email, browsing and office) but desktops won't die just yet. Workstations are still being used at my dads work because nothing else can handle complex 3D CAD

[TheArium]

The desktop will not die until laptops and tablets are capable of being equally as powerful and equally as cool (temperature) as the desktop. It will happen eventually, I'm sure, but it's definitely not right around the corner. Some people fail to realize that there are computer users out there that need more power than what a laptop or a tablet can offer.

 

But I will agree with what many have said already: for the typical home user there is little point in getting a desktop. But really, where are the breaking news in that??

[OlekKing]

They aren't looking at gaming PCs nor individual hardware component sales...it's fucking hilarious really, then you have the ignorant console peasants bringing this shit up.

[aj101202]

I would never get rid of my desktop for a laptop or tablet

 

 

[OlekKing]

Recently one of Microsofts/XBOX's VPs said that keyboard and mouse is still the best input for gaming. Now i hear that the xbone is supposed to be natively compatible with keyboard & mouse.