Interesting article ....says there is enough power desktop users that desktops are here to stay...... But only 10 percent of us will use them



http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2012/06/20/the-future-of-desktop-computing-yes-there-is-one/

Guess I'm a 10% er :) .  I much prefer my desktop in the studio.

Teds_Studio


Guess I'm a 10% er :) .  I much prefer my desktop in the studio.

I'm thinking that a large portion of that 10% will be guys and gals like us.
 
I'm keeping mine if for no other reason than I tend to lose anything smaller than the size of a tower.

Jonbouy

Teds_Studio


Guess I'm a 10% er :) .  I much prefer my desktop in the studio.

I'm thinking that a large portion of that 10% will be guys and gals like us.
 
I'm keeping mine if for no other reason than I tend to lose anything smaller than the size of a tower.

Oh my. I hope Gabriel grows quickly.

Don't understand...if there's no desktop, where am I going to put my computer?

That 10% also includes laptops!

I certainly see myself as being one of the 10%. Of course the big problem will be with a smaller user base the costs will rise accordingly and we may be priced out of future hardware and software advances.

Oh I'm definitely going to be using desktops for the foreseeable future!  More than one (if I can afford it).

10 per center here, and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

Problem is, when you get to my age, that "foreseeable" is getting shorter.

You have to wonder how such predictions are made. Does someone take a ruler and extend a chart of some existing trend? By that method, you'd have confidently predicted in 1973 that by now every person on the planet would be listening to 8-tracks.

I do not own a smart phone, but my wife does. I hate her phone, but she loves it and is as attached to it as any toddler to a teddy bear. Diff'rent strokes.

For me, the promise of all the computing power you need in your shirt pocket is being oversold. Does anybody really watch football on a 3.5" screen like they show in the TV commercials?

I prefer desktop (do towers count as "desktops").  I build my own PCs and hand-pick most of the components that are appropriate for the job I want to do with the PC.  There's also more flexibility in configuring a desktop.  

Laptops, etc. are certainly convenient.  I don't have one, but I'm not against getting one.  I just haven't needed one.  I'm not a fan of touch pads and trackballs.  If I'm going to connect a mouse and keyboard, I might as well have a desktop.