With 3rd quarter sales, revenue, and earnings posted and evaluated, several surprising facts come into play. iSuppli, a market research firm, has evaluated desktop and laptop sales, and for the first time ever, laptop shipments this quarter have been above desktop shipments. 38.6 million laptops were sold last quarter, only slightly above 38.5 million desktops sold. Notebook PC shipments rose 40 percent over 3rd quarter 2007, while PC shipments fell 1.3 percent over 3rd quarter 2007.
HP held the top spot for notebook shipments and PCs (14.9m units), with Dell in 2nd place (11m units), but Acer is quickly catching up (9.7m units). Acer accounts the large increase in notebook shipments to it's Aspire One Netbook line, a small and cheap laptop. Following Acer was Lenovo and Toshiba.
The laptop and netbook market is expected to grow even more in the current quarter due to the holidays and netbooks being even more aggressively priced. Also, several cellular networks are supposedly beginning to roll out savings plans to make netbooks even cheaper when bought with a data plan.
I'm surprised to see Apple absent from the list.
That too.
What else do you do besides gaming that requires so much more power?
I'm guessing some high-end video editing using the PC equivalent of Final Cut Pro . . .
I'm guessing some high-end video editing using the PC equivalent of Final Cut Pro . . .
Not into video editing... yet. I've dabbled, but I'm not any good.
LTD, this is what I do:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp
I'm guessing some high-end video editing using the PC equivalent of Final Cut Pro . . .
Not into video editing... yet. I've dabbled, but I'm not any good.
LTD, this is what I do:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp
"Grid Computing: The Basics
Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months. The technology is also more cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds."
That's fascinating! I'm going to look into this further.
I'm guessing some high-end video editing using the PC equivalent of Final Cut Pro . . .
Not into video editing... yet. I've dabbled, but I'm not any good.
LTD, this is what I do:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp
"Grid Computing: The Basics
Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months. The technology is also more cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds."
That's fascinating! I'm going to look into this further.
LOL, I do this a long time. But each time i format my pc i forget to reinstall.
Thanks for remembering!
Happy XMAS
It is fascinating, the way research is accelerated by about 400,000 people on the grid. There's other projects that use BOIC as the interface, as well as WCG. You can even use your high-end GPU to crunch. I think it's a good way to help forward progress just by donating your computer's idle time.
That's a big reason I can't do a laptop as my main computer. Gaming is the number one reason for right now.
cause Desktops are pretty much easier better than Laptop's overall cause there generally much cheaper and alot more power on them... so unless you NEED portability a Laptop aint all that special.
We barely sell any desktops - it's gotten to the point where managers already assume we're selling a laptop if they see us with a receipt.
RAID 0 said,
This describes exactly why I would much prefer to have a desktop than the laptop that I have at the moment. The only real advantage that laptops have is that they are smaller and more portable. Altho I think that wireless mice and keyboards and large screens can increase portability within a room to a certain extent.
# CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300(2.5 GHz, 6MB)
# RAM: 4 GB
# H.D.D: 320+ GB
# VGA: GeForce 8400 256MB dedicate
I believe same specifications also exist in some models for other brands as well. Except for 3D rendering stuff which I never did It's quiet sufficient for all purposes. Isn't it?
No problems with mice, keyboard, screen size, even using it as a media center either, just hook up the peripherals you need as you need them, but retain the advantages of being portable when you need that.
And I can't build them
Well, free as in paying £20 for a mobile broadband contract which is only worth £10. And the extra £10 pays for the laptop. So it's not really free. But it gets people buying them!
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