Are Gadgets killing PCs?

Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:43 pm   

PC sales have flat-lined. Seems the Android, iPhone, iPad, and other gadgets, such as internet TVs are having a massive
affect on current PC sales.

Is the PC industry is heading for collapse?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-pc-industry-is-heading-for-collapse/17828

Cheers Don...

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Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:11 pm   

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:43:31 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V_at_2.5A> wrote:


I think it's because of Windows
My Laptop 2 years old is noe being slowed down by the sloth ware
Windows deliberatly add so you have to buy a new computer and they
then sell another operating system (mines Win7 32 bit home edition and
still don't see it better than what was with "Win3.11").
On the verge ou "Upgrading" Aldi were selling a 10" Android tablet I
am still working out its nuts and bolts but it's not bad (IMO)
http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_20131.htm
Androus is run on Linux based system, IPads are run on Unix based
system. Run faster don't use anywhere as much dish space light and
very portable with long battery run times.
They are getting better and cheaper
http://eee.asus.com/eeepad/transformer-prime/features/
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Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:15 pm   

Don McKenzie wrote


Nope, just havent seen any growth lately, a different matter entirely.


PC still outsell all the rest combined.


Corse not. The most we might see is another change
of physical format like we did from desktops to laptops.

> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-pc-industry-is-heading-for-collapse/17828

Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:23 pm   

On 22-Jan-12 9:15 AM, Rod Speed wrote:


Hey, it's getting harder to find a desktop in a shop like JB HiFi
100 laptops, and 6 desktops seems to be almost the norm.

However PCs fully built into screens is becoming more popular.

Cheers Don...

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Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:33 pm   

Pretzl wrote

You're wrong. Its just another change of physical format like we
saw with laptops and amplified by Job's brilliance at marketing.


None of the laptops I look after that came with Win7 are.


Just another of your silly little conspiracy theorys.


More fool you. Its nothing like it.


Nothing like the performance of a decent i7 laptop with lots of memory and Win7 64 bit.


iPads have pathetic battery life compared with a kindle.


Electronics always does, stupid.

And notebooks are much slower than a real laptop.

Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:01 am   

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:33:30 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa_at_gmail.com> wrote:


won't upgrade






produce them. Seem to be saving them for Win8


chip

the Asus tablet Eee Pad weighs ½ kilo and runs on battery 16 hours
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:46 am   

Don McKenzie wrote:

Sure, but plenty in Hardly Normal and I noticed that OfficeWorks
was pushing some in their Back to School ads on TV too.

I'm the only one that has bought one recently amoungst the ones I know tho.


Dont recall the numbers were quite that dramatic at my
Hardly Normal, but still many more laptops than dekstops.


Dunno, not sure what the sales volumes are like.

I dont like laptops as the main machine myself, but I certainly
use the PC a lot more than anyone else I know does.

I do use one around the house, listening to radio national stuff while
bottling the beer and in the kitchen updating the food database, stuff
I buy in bulk that ends up in the freezer etc. I buy full slabs of porterhouse
and scotch fillet and cut it up myself to get the thick steaks I prefer.

Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:53 am   

Pretzl wrote

More fool them, I can prove its a lie.


More fool them, Win7 leaves it for dead.


Corse it is, its completely trivial to prove that its a bare faced lie.


Another bare faced lie.


Who gives a flying red fuck ? No one with even 0.001 of a clue would even use one now.


Only a fool demands a 10" screen.

Anyone with even half a clue has a much bigger screen and a tablet.


Because anyone with even 0.001 of a clue doesnt use such
a small screen on a system with a decent capability.


Fantasy.


And thats pathetic compared with what a kindle gets.


And thats pathetic compared with what a kindle gets.


So anyone with even 0.001 of a clue has both, stupid.

And a proper desktop too so you can stuff it with
the 2TB drives that you need on any decent PVR.

Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:22 am   

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:53:48 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa_at_gmail.com> wrote:


which is just an electronic book) and find it much more productive
rather than hauling a 5 kilo windows Laptop around.
Through the HDMI ports you can run it on in my case 42" LCD
With the USB ports you can add as bigger drives as you want. As most
if not all of your Apps are available on the net there is no need to
have them on your computer. A bit of a problem is to get a "Cloud"
ready printer.
I have a Kodak ESP7 which don't and Kodak have now turned to shit
(where have I heard that before)
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:35 am   

Pretzl wrote

Yes, but if they use the PC much, they want a lot more than just that too.


Wrong, as always.


Most dont move whatever they use around that much and use a light weight one only when
they do move it around much and use a much more capable system when they dont need that.


And by the time you plug in a decent screen, and a real keyboard,
you might as well have another decent capability system that you
dont have to fart around like that every time you want to use it and
which you can put all your 2TB drives into too.


Much more convenient to be able to have them all in a decent desktop system.


Most have enough of a clue to have what they use much on the computer
so they dont have to fart around when they want to use them.


I print fuck all anyway.


Nope, its just Chapter 11, stupid.


Likely it was just the voices in your head, again.

Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:41 am   

"Don McKenzie" <5V_at_2.5A> wrote in message
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They're all gadgets aren't they?

Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:00 am   

Don McKenzie wrote:

Shrug, just morphing to another form.
More gadget orientated.
<tic> been going downhill ever since you purchased four refrigerator
size cabinentto hold the cpu, tape drive, hard disk and a spare</tic>

Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:27 am   

terryc wrote

Going downhill since LONG before that, stupid.

Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:36 am   

Rod Speed wrote:


Wod, sure your name isn't Ron? As in IRONY.
And in a thread about gadgets too..

Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:38 am   

Rod Speed wrote:

Is that "going forward" Vs "in the future"?