Unfortunately this is not what I see happening. People are still needing to use laptops at this point for work tasks which used to need to be done on desktops.
Desktops are now already being relegated to only the most extreme, demanding tasks because portables have now become so powerful that they can do industry-standard work in such fields as visual design, audio engineering etc. I have a friend who is a designer who runs all his software on a very high-end laptop so he can work from anywhere. Just a few years ago, running this sort of software on a laptop was simply unheard-of. Personally, I still also need a laptop to do my development work. All of the developers I work with, need to do this due to processing power requirements or simple logistics in developing for mobile platforms. So pretty much the laptop is not going anywhere soon. However, for many other work tasks, it is true. Mobile devices and tablets are gaining momentum. -And obviously, for non-work activities the mobile / tablet scene is already overtaken everything else by far. Thanks and great topic! Cheers! Cara --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Mar 27, 2015, at 11:30 AM, darren harris <darren_g_har...@btinternet.com> wrote: Hi Charles, I can see where you're coming from there. but look at it like this. Mobile devices have only really evolved properly over the last 10 years. We've have had reasonably powerful desktop pc's for longer than 10 years now. we've been playing games on pc's for a lot longer than 10 years. On the iPhone now you can play flight simulaters, games like max payne, on desktops you've been able to do that for a good 15 years. But 10 years ago your average mobile device the most advanced thing it could do is wap and that wasn't really that good because for 1 thing it was so limited. They have made leaps and bounds much more so than desktop or even laptop pc's have done. your conventional laptop I would say is slowly on it's way out and being replaced by tablet computers such as iPads nexus devices etc. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
