For office work stations, tower systems are still a better solution than any
portable or mobile device. They are inexpensive for their power, very fast,
and reliable. Though a workhorse laptop can duplicate much of the same
functionality, it requires adding the same peripherals needed for a tower
system which really pushes the basic cost up for no good reason. Besides,
servers and such will probably always be a stationary box of some kind, so I
doubt she is predicting they will no longer be made. At least for business
use, they have distinct advantages in the right application.
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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 4:32 PM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] Kim Komando's Comment on Desktops - Was: iPhone Messages
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Hi all,
Interestingly enough, I got for Christmas, a
(nearly) full-size keyboard that connects to my iPHone via Bluetooth. I'm
going to try it out with Evernote to see if I can then use my iPHone as a
word processor with any real productivity. Because I absolutely despise
text-typing with 1 finger.
It's a ludicrous way to type. Virtual keyboards beat hitting the same button
3 times to get 1 letter, but they still both stink for typing in any length,
if you ask me.
I may be wrong, but I took the comment from Kim Komando as meaning that 2013
may be the last year any desktips will be manufactured, and that we've
reached a point where they are not worth being made any longer, due to
changing technology? Of course we'd still be using them at home or work in
many places for a few more years, but does anyone know if they're still
going to continue manufacturing them? Just my thought on the comment,
anyway. ;-)
Strive On!
Everett
----- Original Message -----
> As someone who works in the I T industry, I can pretty safely say that
> we have no expectation that we will all be trading in our desk top and
> laptop computers for tablets in the next few years. I expect we will
> all have them, but not for our primary work related tasks.
>
> Once tablets are carrying 8 gig of RAM,, 3 or 4 GhZ processors, can
> connect to full keyboards, and drive 2 25 inch monitors, then I expect
> we will see how long our desktop computers stay around.
>
> That time is definitely coming, but not next year.
>
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