The PC isn't dead or dying

[beancounter]

Reports of the PC’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Another viewpoint.

http://www.howtogeek.com/183381/are-pcs-dying-of-course-not-heres-why/

 

[Danielle]

If it became just as powerful, was able to run the same programs a Windows computer can run, and you can attatch things like a monitor, keyboard, mouse and a controller I'd be fine with the PC dying.
Though I'd rather see technology get better - not smaller.

 

[thefadedone]

Good. Now I feel a little bit less like a dinosaur for still using my PC and not owning a tablet or smartphone.

 

[Amy SF]

I was assuming that many people were buying tablets to supplement their PC, not to replace it. My sister has a Macbook, an iPad mini, and an iPhone, and she depends on all three. I have a Dell laptop. I don't see myself buying a tablet any time soon, but I am definitely planning to get a smartphone sometime this year. I don't expect the smartphone to replace my laptop. For one thing, and I suspect this is the case for other people, I might use my laptop to work from home. As the article pointed out, it's preferable to use a PC for things that you can't do with a tablet or smartphone.

 

[Snowcone]

It had better not be. I ******* hate touch screens.

 

[KLS52]

You and me, both. I've had my iPhone two years now and I'm still not acclimated to the touch screen.

 

[Clueless Git]

This could be happening to PC's all over the world right now ...

 

[Danielle]

It had better not be. I ****ing hate touch screens.

What if it came with a keyboard and mouse..?
Oh nvm...

 

[PTree15]

I'm a laptop-as-a-desktop-replacement girl myself due to lack of space. I do have an iPad (Wi-Fi only), but I've resisted the smartphone because I don't want to pay for a data plan. I'm with Danielle; make the technology better, not necessarily smaller.

 

[Mischief]

I have a laptop (with the largest possible screen) and will always have a laptop.

I think that, as people get older, they will find themselves much less enamored of tiny screens and touchscreens and/or small keys. Age inevitably brings physical changes that makes tiny, fiddly things frustrating to use.

 

[Snowcone]

I have a laptop (with the largest possible screen) and will always have a laptop.

I think that, as people get older, they will find themselves much less enamored of tiny screens and touchscreens and/or small keys. Age inevitably brings physical changes that makes tiny, fiddly things frustrating to use.

I'm an old man! I hate everything but Matlock! Ooh, it's on now!

 

[Mischief]

I'm an old man! I hate everything but Matlock! Ooh, it's on now!

Ha! I've never watched Matlock, but it was one of my mother's favorites. You must belong to her generation.

 

[Joe]

It had better not be. I ****ing hate touch screens.

If you buy a tablet with BlueTooth, you can get a full-sized keyboard for it. Some also have optional adapters which basically give you a USB port to plug in any USB peripheral.

 

[Amy SF]

I'm an old man! I hate everything but Matlock! Ooh, it's on now!

Matlock! Give us our Matlock! But not those touchy-typie beeping thingies! Those are scary! And teenagers! Teenagers scare us!