Death of the PC - The Gadget Show

OK, that I can certainly agree with. Some people might be happy to do everything they need to do on a tablet or smart phone but most of us will run up against their limitations to varying degrees.
 
Always find myself annoyed by their inaccuracies sometimes. Most of the time it is minor things but this takes the biscuit.
 
Frenzy said:
Always find myself annoyed by their inaccuracies sometimes. Most of the time it is minor things but this takes the biscuit.
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I have to agree with you on this, watched the show over the years just for a bit of light entertainment and to feed by inner geekyness, but lately their taking the p**s!...
 
My ideal scenario is to use a laptop for almost all my computing needs.
I have a tablet which I can use when out and about, and for quick bouts of surfing the net. But for extended periods it gets quite tiresome.

I would always have a desktop PC but that'd be a media server more than anything tbh.
 
the future is mobile until we make items so small they are integrated maybe inside us :eek:

we are not quite there yet :p but anyone who thinks the future is in desktops is crazy.

just look at tech since the mobile phone came on the scene. ever since then small mobile equipment which is getting more and more powerful which does what 90 percent of what people need from a desktop.

component retailers are obviously going to tell you its nonsense its their business LOL.

7 years desktop pcs fallen in a row. microsoft focusing on mobile now. that alone tells you what direction we are going.

5 years time you'll have pcs or devices as powerful as modern desktops as your watch ! never mind on your desk !

as to the gadget show its useless. i do find it funny though as ocuk have actually publically made a thing when being linked with them :D

guessing that relationship wont continue ? :D
 
~>Dg<~ said:
7 years desktop pcs fallen in a row. microsoft focusing on mobile now. that alone tells you what direction we are going.

5 years time you'll have pcs or devices as powerful as modern desktops as your watch ! never mind on your desk !
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Microsoft Mobile!, ah! what a joke! lol:p

Anyway....more like 10 years...it's enviable technology is going to get small/lighter/energy efficient and more powerful but that would include the desktop PC in one field or another!.

The way people are using this technology is changing and Mr and Mrs consumer won't be popping in to the large electrical store and walking away with a complete Desktop PC anymore, why would you?! if the technology allows you to carryout your needs whiles sat on the toilet, for example.

Doesn't mean there no future for the Desktop PC, they are used in all multitude of situations which also include gaming!.. all depends on what you want from it which a Desktop gives you, choice!.

In 5 years 'watches' are as powerful as my Desktop PC....imagine how POWERFUL that current desktop would be! lol :eek:

~>Dg<~ said:
but anyone who thinks the future is in desktops is crazy
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Hmm..I don't think anyone that's replied has stated this, only you my friend! :p

It's just declining on the common budget consumer market!...we can't change that, but to think it's obsolete would be crazy! :p
 
I was under the impression that those actually in touch with technology had long since abandoned the tosh the "Gadget Show" comes out with, last episode I saw was just a whose who of rubbish you find on eBay! And of course the obligatory ridiculous prize giveaway that nobody ever wins.
 
SC0TTRS said:
Microsoft Mobile!, ah! what a joke! lol:p

Anyway....more like 10 years...it's enviable technology is going to get small/lighter/energy efficient and more powerful but that would include the desktop PC in one field or another!.

The way people are using this technology is changing and Mr and Mrs consumer won't be popping in to the large electrical store and walking away with a complete Desktop PC anymore, why would you?! if the technology allows you to carryout your needs whiles sat on the toilet, for example.

Doesn't mean there no future for the Desktop PC, they are used in all multitude of situations which also include gaming!.. all depends on what you want from it which a Desktop gives you, choice!.

In 5 years 'watches' are as powerful as my Desktop PC....imagine how POWERFUL that current desktop would be! lol :eek:



Hmm..I don't think anyone that's replied has stated this, only you my friend! :p

It's just declining on the common budget consumer market!...we can't change that, but to think it's obsolete would be crazy! :p
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doesnt matter how powerful desktops are if 99 percent just use for light surfing. that is why there is a decline year after year. people have what they need to do what they do (mass majority not professionals or the small percentage who are like us)
 
Redgie said:
I was under the impression that those actually in touch with technology had long since abandoned the tosh the "Gadget Show" comes out with, last episode I saw was just a whose who of rubbish you find on eBay! And of course the obligatory ridiculous prize giveaway that nobody ever wins.
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How true you are!, but some of us still can't resist watching Pollyanna Woodward in a tight wetsuit water skiing in Morocco! LOL :p
 
~>Dg<~ said:
doesnt matter how powerful desktops are if 99 percent just use for light surfing. that is why there is a decline year after year. people have what they need to do what they do (mass majority not professionals or the small percentage who are like us)
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I agree, but what i'm trying to say is the desktop PC would be included in the future!, even is the percentage has reduced a lot, which it has already..

P.S As long as Games Consoles are around the Desktop PC will be too!..how else do they design and develop games! :D
 
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SC0TTRS said:
I agree, but what i'm trying to say is the desktop PC would be included in the future!, even is the percentage has reduced a lot, which it has already..

P.S As long as Games Consoles are around the Desktop PC will be too!..how else do they design and develop games! :D
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Presumably on precision workstations like they do now.. not a desktop pc...
 
SC0TTRS said:
In 5 years 'watches' are as powerful as my Desktop PC....imagine how POWERFUL that current desktop would be! lol :eek:
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Funny you mention watches because the same arguments against the Desktop PC could be made for the humble wristwatch. You could argue that for the last decade at least the watch should have become obsolete, given even the most basic mobile phone displays the time.

However, the wrist watch market is still booming and people are still buying them. Maybe not as much as 30 years ago and the market has changed (Younger people only buy them as pieces of jewellery rather than a tool) but they still exist and so do watch shops.
 
For the average casual user, yeah a tablet or netbook is more viable but doesn't mean the desktop is dead =\
 
The desktop isn't dead, they've just advanced to the point that people simply don't need to upgrade them to continue to do the same things they've always done.

So now, when people buy a PC, it's because they need it for a specific use.

In addition to that, a lot of these large PC OEMs like Dell and so on are selling less PCs, which is where the whole "Desktop PCs are dying" thing comes from, but the otherside of it is that desktop sales are only counted from certain OEMs, ones you've build yourself are obviously not counted in it, and I've noticed an increase in the amount of people willing to build their own PC.

Thinking about it, I don't know anyone who has a ready built PC in their home, everyone I know has desktops that they've built, that I've built for them or that I've helped them build.
 
estebanrey said:
Funny you mention watches because the same arguments against the Desktop PC could be made for the humble wristwatch. You could argue that for the last decade at least the watch should have become obsolete, given even the most basic mobile phone displays the time.

However, the wrist watch market is still booming and people are still buying them. Maybe not as much as 30 years ago and the market has changed (Younger people only buy them as pieces of jewellery rather than a tool) but they still exist and so do watch shops.
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Interestingly we are about to see a bit of a jump in watch tech for those who don't mind a bit more bulk on their wrist - you can now get QVGA res "smart" watches with dual core CPUs and 512MB RAM plus 4+GB storage heh (not far off desktop performance of less than 10 year old PCs).
 
spoffle said:
Thinking about it, I don't know anyone who has a ready built PC in their home, everyone I know has desktops that they've built, that I've built for them or that I've helped them build.
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yes but the number of people with self built machines is tiny compared to the droves that were buying £400 white boxes from PC world and are now instead buying tablets and mobile devices.
 
Fr0dders said:
yes but the number of people with self built machines is tiny compared to the droves that were buying £400 white boxes from PC world and are now instead buying tablets and mobile devices.
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We can assume that to be the case, but it's becoming quite common for me to see people wanting to build their own, people who aren't particularly technologically minded or interested in the technical aspect of PCs.
 
spoffle said:
We can assume that to be the case, but it's becoming quite common for me to see people wanting to build their own, people who aren't particularly technologically minded or interested in the technical aspect of PCs.
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What is the baseline for this? What kind of people? I've worked around computers and home/office tech since 2006 and the criteria for the average user and a computer has seldom changed. Those folks just want a computer that works and don't really care about the technical aspects of what's inside to the point of wanting to build one.

What they are interested in is how many hundreds of GBs the "CPU" has and things of that nature :p

Tablets and smartphones being as powerful as they are have changed the game considerably the last 24 months though but people still don't generally care about the deep technical workings with those, more focusing on the screen resolution, camera megapixels and how much stuff they can store on them.
 
I still don't buy into this "PC market is dead/dying" nonsense, 5UB himself posted on this thread saying that OcUK have had record sales recently especially in systems. Fact of the matter is that for sitting at a desk and working, a desktop PC (this includes workstations of course) is the best and most convenient option.

Also you just cannot match the processing power of a desktop PC (such as those that a lot of us here have built) with phones, tablets or even laptops. The benefits my rig gives me in processing power with applications such as Visual Studio are just too good to pass.

I will always have a desktop computer as far as the future is concerned.

P.S: PC gaming rules supreme, consoles can go do one. :D
 
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