Desktop PC Dead ?...

[BigBazz]

Is the desktop PC dead ? according to the Gadget Show in 2014 it is.. I just watched in disbelief as Jason Bradbury a long time self confessed PC gamer, some tart who isn't Suzi Perry and Otis Wotshisname, run down the desktop pc only to show a 1TB flash drive that costs more than my recent PC build, a chrome book and some fairly run of the mill tablets and laptops...

Since i started using a PC back in the days of the BBCMicro,486DX, Sinclair Spectrum and the mighty Commadore 64 the desktop PC has evolved into a powerhouse of performance, functionality and especially for self builders and modders they are a thing of beauty no longer just the beige box sitting under a desk. Its only drawback is Windows, Microsoft seem to cycle out Bad OS, Good OS, Bad OS and so on..

I say long live the desktop and the Gadget Show can go take long walk off a short pier.

What do you think ?

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

I say that you are late to the party.

 

[Malevolence]

The iGadget Show is ****, and in answer to your question. No it isn't.

 

[marc2003]

I say that you are late to the party.

indeed. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18583901&highlight=gadget+show

 

[Jono8]

How dare you call Rachel Riley "some tart". Get the **** off my internets.

 

[Sliver]

The iGadget Show is ****, and in answer to your question. No it isn't.

^^

Stopped watching that show a long time ago. Too busy on my Desktop PC.

 

[Edinho]

I have to agree that it is windows that is holding back the PC. Microsoft really need to change.

 

[dal]

The desktop will NEVER be dead - period.

 

[jsmoke]

Dead for what?

 

[Maccapacca]

For 95% of the population yes.

 

[Efour]

5% and proud

 

[3DNow!]

I've gotta say I have a been a desktop fanatic for a long time and I still am. Yes more powerful portable devices are coming out faster than the energy companies hiking up their prices. It still isn't near the power of a desktop computer though.

 

[smelly_legend]

how?

 

[Glaucus]

For 95% of the population yes.

This, even in enterprise it's on the way out, being replaced by laptops, tablets and phones depending if you are mobile or office staff. Why have a desktop, when you can give employers a laptop, which means they can take it to meetings, you can hot desk easier and off course they can take them home, so you get more work done, for staff on the ground tablets are becoming very popular, saving huge amounts of paperwork and instant communication . It won't die. But it's importance is no longer there.

 

[Energize]

Desktops are as popular as ever for content creation like video editing and software development because laptops aren't powerful enough and are hugely expensive in comparison. All we are seeing is a shift back to the original demographic.

 

[dymetrie]

I haven't touched a desktop PC for two months...

Although this is more down to not having time to board the loft in my new house and hence clear the junk out of my office so I can use my desktop PC, than because I don't want to...

 

[JohnnyG]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18583901