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I am having an ongoing argument about desktop PC's vs. Laptops. My friend insists that in 3 years it will be hard to get a desktop because laptops will have taken over the market for PC's.

I disagree.

Your thoughts?? discuss.

Oh just another little tidbit....this is the same friend who insists that you can tune in any Internet Radio Stations on a Sirius receiver.
 
I am having an ongoing argument about desktop PC's vs. Laptops. My friend insists that in 3 years it will be hard to get a desktop because laptops will have taken over the market for PC's.
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That arguement has been going on for ten years.
 
Who were you talking 'bout again...? Even forget about this post... 😉

If he wants worse and expensive gaming, let him go with the laptops... If they conquer the world, I'll hide my desktop...
 
desktops will always be more powerfull/better cooled than laptops. not to mention you can actually *fit* a 7800 GTX 512 in there.

friend of mine bought a new laptop. 1500 bucks. pentium 4 3 ghz, 1gb ram and ati x600. thing gets hot enough to fry his nuts on his lap. battery life is just long enough to walk to the next power outlet. weighs more then your randomly picked cinderblock. and its still not nearly as powerfull as a destop that you can get for that price. heck i once played UT2004 on it in one of my schools breaks, it felt hot enough i was afraid i'd melt it through the table it was on.

desktop forever!
 
When he tells you Laptops will make Desktops go the way of the dinosaur, tell him gaming consoles will make PCs disappear like the Dodo bird... it's the same logic.
 
friend of mine bought a new laptop. 1500 bucks. pentium 4 3 ghz, 1gb ram and ati x600. thing gets hot enough to fry his nuts on his lap. battery life is just long enough to walk to the next power outlet. weighs more then your randomly picked cinderblock. and its still not nearly as powerfull as a destop that you can get for that price. heck i once played UT2004 on it in one of my schools breaks, it felt hot enough i was afraid i'd melt it through the table it was on.
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Hehehe... Funny 😀
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Originally posted by: GamerExpress
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Get a new friend
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I should have made it more clear....he is more like an annoying acquaintance.
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Never talk to him again
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MSN posted an article about friends who you don't need, and this type of friend is categorized as the yakker. "Always whinning about the upside down cracker."

You won't win, and you don't need to win this argument. Because when three years is up, he will still ponder this.
 
This type of argument is common in many fields. Smaller currently inferior technology will replace larger more advanced technology in all situations for all people, and the latter will become extinct. Unfortunately, it just doesn't happen that way, and he just needs to think for a moment about the fact that people will always be using a computer on the top of a desk (note the wording carefully). Given that noone is insane enough to make a laptop with a 30" screen, given that some people are always going to need more than one or two hard disks worth of local storage, and given that laptop speakers suck, tethered, fixed-position computers are never going to go away (which is not saying that they might get smaller, but that's not going to happen dramatically for some time).
 
He's not dumb - just believes the wrong BS. It happens to most of the great unwashed.
 
Just tell him he's totally right and let him enjoy his ignorance in bliss. You'd be suprise how well it works for certain people.
 
Originally posted by: JimPhelpsMI
Hi, It will never happen. Has he ever tried to buy a replacement motherboard for a laptop? Jim
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Ever try to replace the motherboard in an OEM PC?
 
Ive got a similar friend. Just dont take him seriously and tell him BS. He will eventually be proved wrong.

My friend believed the following crap:

1. My motherboard has a setting for 2ghz! therefore my athlon (thunderbird 1ghz) is MEANT! to run at those speeds. -- little while later i see the chip in question, its apparently broken and its got burn marks underneath it

2. The n-gage rules! its gonna take over the market, if i were you id buy tons and sell them to people later for a profit! -- a year down the line and people are still like "whats an n-gage?"

4. This guy i know, he is a computer expert and he upgraded my athlon xp so it would run faster. -- few months later the chip dies, has to be replaced

4. In a few years, phones will replace pc's -- similar to the laptop arguement, probably never gonna happen.
 
Originally posted by: rbV5
Didn't laptops overtake desktop sales last May?
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Figures like that are often somewhat suspect, or at least incomplete. But it's gotta be relatively close. I know a number of people who have just a laptop as their main computer (and in the college-age segment, it seems to be even more skewed towards laptops), or who have both a laptop and a desktop. Several of them have older desktops and, rather than replacing the 2-5 year old desktop (which still works fine for web/email/word processing), bought a new laptop to go with it instead of a whole new desktop PC. With wireless home networks becoming very cheap and relatively easy for almost anyone to setup, the appeal of having a computer you can use anywhere in your house is obvious. Plus, you can set it up with a docking station (or just plug in a keyboard/mouse/big monitor) if you need to use it as a 'desknote' for extended periods of time. And if you're willing to throw enough money at it, you can get a 1080p LCD display and performance that rivals a high-end desktop system from a year ago.

Desktops could become obsolete if laptops got cheaper and more standardized. But right now, you get significantly more bang/buck out of a desktop system, and it's usually tough (if not impossible) to significantly upgrade a laptop. I don't see this happening within the next 3-5 years, though it could within the next 5-10.
 
Desktops could become obsolete if laptops got cheaper and more standardized. But right now, you get significantly more bang/buck out of a desktop system, and it's usually tough (if not impossible) to significantly upgrade a laptop. I don't see this happening within the next 3-5 years, though it could within the next 5-10.
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I think it will depend greatly on Corporate adoption. If you can't sell desktops in the corporate space, they won't be around for long. At some point, it will be cheaper to replace a desktop with a portable notebook than upgrading that desktop, then bye bye.
 
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