It's true. Myself, the other day when in CompUSA, saw a bigass ACER
laptop luggable with a huge wide screen and a bunch of stuff sticking on
the back, thought that my next desktop might be a hugeass laptop with a
widescreen and DD5.1 built in. Get an HD farm and a good vidcard built
in, and the desktops go the way of the dodo...
OTOH....desktops sure are easier to service, upgrade, and extend the
life of. A good case can live on for years...
Almost every professional woman I speak to will only consider a laptop...
My UMPC is considered way cool by all who see it....
Personally, I find it nice to have to power adaptors at each location I
spend a lot of time at. It lighten my load and I don't have to worry
about forgeting.
Touch screens and toggle buttons don't work for me...I need a mouse....
Extra batteries can be had off eBay....and I don't use batteries much
anyway...
Nowadays.....there is little difference between "wants" and "needs"
since most of us can have whatever we want..
We've having a tornado...oops..
Winterlight wrote:
Ok, you might be right. But I sell so many laptops that function as
desktops that it's scary.
I watched Charlie Rose interview the CEO of Intel the other night who
stated that in the last few years laptop sales exceeded desktops. It
is a trend he sees continuing, and growing.
My three sisters, all of them medical professionals, have all given
up their desktops in favor of Thinkpad.... and they have no reason to
go back. And I haven't known a woman who choose a desktop over a
laptop if money wasn't an issue.
The primary reason Desktop sales have exceeded laptops is the price,
but all that has changed. I wouldn't be surprised, five years from
now, if Desktops only accounted for 15 percent of the market.
