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desktops aren't going anywhere, calm your farm.
by shrewduser 11y ago
desktops aren't going anywhere, calm your farm.
- mandeepj 11y agoheavy lifting stuff gets done on desktop.
- erikpukinskis 11y agoTrue, but actual heavy lifting work is probably <1% of the current desktop market. Most of it is browsing, messaging, documents.
- FatalBaboon 11y agoSo when you need to do heavy lifting, you just give up because all you got is a tablet? Besides, as far as programming goes, I'm happy I got all the power I can find to iterate quickly, and tablet != power.
- josephpmay 11y agoThis is a response to FatalBaboon, but I can't replay to his comment. If you need more power, you remotely connect to a server that has as much power as you need. (I say this as I'm currently on my laptop ssh'd into a Unix server to run cadence)
- j3116294 11y agoYes but that doesn't apply to tablets unless you use a bluetooth keyboard. At that point you have a laptop in a strange formfactor and an OS that isn't optimised for this particular usecase.
- josephpmay 11y agoYes. I was thinking more of devices like the one-port Macbook than tablets.
- rayiner 11y agoEver see someone working with "documents?" They have multiple windows open, but Excel spreadsheets, etc. the business market is a big chunk of what's left of the laptop/desktop market, and it's not amenable to tablets.
- shostack 11y agoFor now, while the apps that require heavy lifting outclass the horsepower of most laptops. But the list of things high-end laptops cannot handle is growing shorter every day. There will likely always be specialty activities, but there's also the concept of using the laptop as a thin client connected remotely to the cloud where the heavy lifting happens.