Why the Personal Computer Is Not Dead


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I don't ever plan to buy another desktop. I have an Note II Android phone, a Galaxy Tab 2 tablet, an Xbox 360, and a PS3 and a Series 3 Chromebook, plus my desktop runs Linux. I can do anything and everything I want to do. 

 

Of course, by my definition I have several PCs, including my phone, my tablet, my Chromebook as well as my Linux desktop.

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I don't ever plan to buy another desktop. I have an Note II Android phone, a Galaxy Tab 2 tablet, an Xbox 360, and a PS3 and a Series 3 Chromebook, plus my desktop runs Linux. I can do anything and everything I want to do. 

 

Of course, by my definition I have several PCs, including my phone, my tablet, my Chromebook as well as my Linux desktop.

 

The story was about PCs--not desktops specifically.

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Anyone who thinks that the personal computer is dead is not thinking properly.

In regards to desktop PCs, Nathan Lineback once wrote:
 

Ask your local gamer if they can install 8 high end video cards on a cell phone. Ask your local manufacturer if they can run their industrial supply line off of an iPad. Ask a movie junky if they can put their 60 terabyte RAID array in an e-Reader.

Some idiots realized all they ever used a computer for was looking at pictures of cats and random clips from "Family Guy", and replaced it with a mobile device. That does not, by any stretch of the imagination, mean that the PC is dead.

 

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Anyone who thinks that the personal computer is dead is not thinking properly.

In regards to desktop PCs, Nathan Lineback once wrote:

What? Two of those examples are beyond stupid. Also those "idiots" that he refers to are the ones that make up most PC sales. Since those "idiots" realized that they dont need a big heavy desktop anymore, they stopped getting them and getting mobile devices instead.

I'll agree that the traditional desktop PC isn't dead but it is slowly dying. The demand for better hardware has really slowed the past few years...it used to be that half the new games pushed hardware to the max and you'd replace your computer frequently...not so much nowadays. My three year old laptop with an ancient i7 and an old 4 series mobile gpu can play pretty much every new game. I can play bf3 on medium, bioshock infinite on medium with one or two settings on high, skyrim on medium-high etc.

The traditional desktop PC is slowly becoming a niche as opposed to a standard. In the consumer world anyways, corporations still buy them by the boatload because they're cheap.

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