True, but you can "attach" mouse and keyboard to tablets! Face facts, at the
beginning, the desktop unit was a "desktop" unit. Then they started putting
the monster on the floor UNDER the desk. Then came servers and a large hard
disk in a desktop was almost unnecessary. Then along came laptops,
portability was wonderful, read that an easier way for management to get
more productivity from employees. With Go To Meeting and the like, you
almost don't need to go to the "office" and certainly don't need to fly or
drive to a remote location. Then came Netbooks and now tablets. With the
"cloud" you no longer even need servers or large hard disks on site. so, why
can't the tablet do the job in most situations? Desktops, like people will
die, it's more a question of how soon! Just wait for some PC manufacturer to
design the "perfect" tablet!
M. Free
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 12:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Death of the Desktops?
Spreadsheets creation and data entry, page layout, photo processing,
writing, presentation creation - those and more are far more difficult
on anything without a keyboard and mouse.
Kurt
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rankin, James R <[email protected]>
wrote:
Can you imagine writing technical documents or doing CAD on a tablet? Sure
the percentages may change, but the desktop will not go away anytime soon.
It might run on a thin client, but there's still a place for a desktop -
even if virtual.
Pundits have been predicting things like "the death of Citrix" and "the
year
of the Linux desktop" for a long while. I haven't noticed either of them
happening.
YMMV, IMO, etc.
---Blackberried
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From: Roger Wright <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:40:41 -0400
To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>
ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Subject: Death of the Desktops?
There are a number of pundits pushing the notion that desktop computing is
facing certain death, and especially for desktop computers as we've known
them up to now. Indeed, there are more portable offerings available than
desktop machine options, but with a higher price/performance/feature
ratio.
I'm not sure I buy it, especially for many business environments where
access to legacy apps is critical. But it does give me something to
consider as we face our annual equipment refresh cycle.
What are your thoughts?
Roger Wright
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