Haswell release date & Intel/industry practices

[IntelUser2000]

Originally Posted by poohbear

Uhm, i'm guessing ure in ur 20s & never worked in an office. Do u know how bad it is ergonomically to work on a laptop??? It would destroy peoples necks, lower backs, and wrists to work for hours on a laptop. U have to look down & slouch ur neck, hunch ur back, and type awkardly @ a laptop, there's no way u can expect workers to sit for hours everyday @ a laptop. A 22-27" monitor @ eye level with a normal keyboard is the only possibklle way to get any office/programming work day in & day out.

Are you in your 10s then? Seriously, the abbreviation of every two words is annoying.

Go look at people spending HOURS on Smartphones with their necks at right angle with the body and talk to us again about ergonomics.

Desktop markets are getting smaller because people refuse to upgrade them, not because its not required. Naturally that means companies that make them will go to where more money is, like in more portable devices.

[jsedlak]

Originally Posted by ShintaiDK

Your entire post is so full of flaws. And nag to Microsoft over the Surface Pros price, not Intel. The Surface RT with its gimped specs is already 499$.

The Surface/Surface Pro are priced competitively versus competitors.

[jsedlak]

Originally Posted by poohbear

Uhm, i'm guessing ure in ur 20s & never worked in an office. Do u know how bad it is ergonomically to work on a laptop??? It would destroy peoples necks, lower backs, and wrists to work for hours on a laptop. U have to look down & slouch ur neck, hunch ur back, and type awkardly @ a laptop, there's no way u can expect workers to sit for hours everyday @ a laptop. A 22-27" monitor @ eye level with a normal keyboard is the only possibklle way to get any office/programming work day in & day out.

We have laptops with a dock at my office... this is pretty common as it lets you bring your work home easily.

[rgallant]

Originally Posted by jsedlak

We have laptops with a dock at my office... this is pretty common as it lets you bring your work home easily.

just saying

-I walk in to offices every day in high end office space and only see a few co. provided laptops , maybe for the managers but not for the bulk of the office staff.
-maybe some IT guys from 200-400 employee offices can chime in with the mix.

[Torn Mind]

Originally Posted by poohbear

Uhm, i'm guessing ure in ur 20s & never worked in an office. Do u know how bad it is ergonomically to work on a laptop??? It would destroy peoples necks, lower backs, and wrists to work for hours on a laptop. U have to look down & slouch ur neck, hunch ur back, and type awkardly @ a laptop, there's no way u can expect workers to sit for hours everyday @ a laptop. A 22-27" monitor @ eye level with a normal keyboard is the only possibklle way to get any office/programming work day in & day out.

Desktops can do the same thing to people without ergonomic furniture and proper setup of the area.

[scannall]

Originally Posted by Torn Mind

You don't need a desktop to do many of those things, just a laptop with a decent OS will do.

Where desktops are required will be at the very high end, i.e gaming on extremely high resolutions, professional multimedia editing, etc.

Exactly right. In a few years, say around when the iPad '6' hits the market I can see where you would just plug a Thunderbolt cable into your iPad, and have your whole desktop set up and ready to go. Not enough power for gamers or other high end uses. But plenty of power for the vast majority of users.