Windows 10: Desktop PCs and the Windows desktop: Endangered species?

I think that the sales of desktops are likely to be lower because they are expected to last for years.

 

As a matter of history, Lady Fitzgerald, one of the first "computers" I worked on was a Xerox Word Processor. On the keyboard there was a round disk-like thing that you stroked to get to where you wanted to place the cursor when you wanted to change something in the text. I still don't know why they called it a mouse unless it was because it skittered all over the page when stroked. *Smile

 

My first was a Nortstar 1980, or I believe it was a 1980...
Had a HUGE floppy at the side, not even a HD... heh...

 

Yeah, we saved everything onto an 8" floppy disk! Hard drives in that era were around 5 MB or smaller. And . . . around $200.00!

 

Yeah, in 1986 I had this Amiga 500 with a PC board, to run both Amiga and PC...
It had a 40MB HD.
Friends asked me if I was insane: "You cannot EVER fill that thing up." they said.
Now, a decent photo is that size, lol

 

Well, actually you CAN, with this one.

It's by no means quick or easy, but it's doable.


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Normally I don't do laptops, but I had a laptop in for repair once and found a large burn in the center of the mobo. Owner told me to keep it, so I decided to see what I could do with it. Eensy teensy screws by the gazillions!

I can add RAM, add a hard drive, even a DVD drive, but forget the rest of it!

 

An all-ones-desktop does pretty good on noise-my experience. All-One-desktops also have a higher temperature threshold then other desktops according to the specs. Not sure if it has a lower temperature threshold as well. They cool fine. All-one-desktop is like a cross between a laptop and a desktop.

 

It actually depends on the case.
Many use this normal towerlike case, I do not: I run a cube case.
The system is on the left side, has it's own cooling, the DVD, HD and card-reader are on the right side, also with it's own cooling.
Yes it takes more room, but the additional space, and cooling form is beyond anything else...
Right now I have 4x4tb storage drives, a 500MB system drive, my virtual memory is on one of the 4TB drives (a separate 126MB partition), 2 DVD stations, a card reader... and STILL room for 5 more drive type items....
The system side can take ANY motherboard with ANY vid card system (sizewise).
Cube case rules...

 

Hi there

Whether a Classical desktop or a laptop / convertible the keyboard / mouse / "Desktop" type applications aren't going away.

While obviously mobile phones and "Slabs / Slates" have changed the way people interact with the Internet the public's love affair with tablets is definitely on the wane.

There are just so many things you can do where you need a sensible computer to perform the tasks.

Example - In Iceland there's some pretty detailed Volcanic activity monitoring taking place --remember the total chaos to flying that happened when in 2010 Eyjafjallajökull erupted.

You need a decently rugged PC with some quite sophisticated hardware when people are out in the field. Some of the Maths calculations need a LOT of serious processing time too whether these are done on site or "Back at Base" on a bigger multi-processor machine.

Also nobody can tell me that editing and manipulating great chunks of text can be done easily without a mouse -- and try and do ANY video editing on a Slab. !!

The PC is NOT an endangered species -- a lot of people who had PC's in the past probably didn't need them -- however the PC market HAS stabilised and if anything is showing a slight increase.

@ Tablet lovers -- Try and run a Forum like this one on a tablet with even THREE users !!.

Cheers
jimbo

 

I have decided to use Eyjafjallajökull as my on-line banking password. Un-crackable...

 

Kind of like saying the smartphone will replace the home theater. Yes you can watch videos or listen to music on both, but it's not the same thing.

 

O . . . K Y'know, it I were you, I'd add a couple more things such as ~, %, !, just to be sure it's really uncrackable. *What

Be sure to let us know if you choose to do this, and especially what characters you added. *Smile

 

Now we're all going to hack into your bank account. *Smile

 

How can we: it's uncrackable!