Hi Cara, I tend to agree with you about desktops. For many years I was in the business of PC building, assembling custom desktops, but that market has all but disappeared. Nobody really wants desktops now that laptops are A, much smaller, B, just as powerful, and C, are affordable. For an independent contractor it is impossible to custom build laptops for the price of a low cost Del or Toshiba laptop. So I've left that business behind since for all intents and purposes it isn't really profitable.
One doesn't have to go far to see that desktops have largely fallen out of favor. One can just walk into any Walmart or Best Buy in the U.S. and see right off what desktops they have, if any, are few and far between. The other day I was in Walmart and basically the desktops they had on hand was an extremely small CPU case, flatscreen monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Not only was it small the system specs were no better than the laptops they had in the next isle over for about the same price. So I don't see the majority of home users, your average Joe's and Jane's, buying many desktops when for all intents and purposes laptops provide everything for a similar cost. If they need an external keyboard, mouse, or a larger display all those can easily be purchased for their laptop as an additional device. Thing is I know many blind users are part and partial to their desktops, and that is okay. However, long term though we will see them being phased out of the mainstream market and I'd say only being sold to businesses or special interest groups with laptops handling the majority of PC work for the average household. Cheers! On 3/31/15, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, that sounds like an awesome racing game to be sure. :) > > The laptop I was mentioning which belongs to a friend is actually much > higher specced than that, so make no mistake that laptops can perform like > this. > > His machine is designed to run the most current intensive industry-standard > image rendering software. Previously this level of software needed to be run > on machines like the Mac Pro etc. > > Check out Alienware. You can completely custom-build a laptop from them > which can be quite something. > > http://www.alienware.com/Landings/laptops.aspx?&ST=new%20alienware%20m14x&dgc=ST&cid=245947&lid=4238044&acd=123098073120560 > > Of course though, obviously,since desktops can be customized as well, as you > say, there will be people who wish to do that. -Nothing wrong with that! :) > > Please understand, I am not saying anything personally against desktops, :) > it's just that I think we will be seeing a lot less production / > availability of desktop hardware. In fact, this is already happening in the > mainstream. > > Have an awesome night and do share more about the racing game if you like. I > totally dug 3D driving games when I could see. > > 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 --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
