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I am not that pessimistic. A couple of years back it was all "The PC is dead, everyone uses tablets now", but when I look around at work, about 50% of the compu
by krylon 9y ago
I am not that pessimistic. A couple of years back it was all "The PC is dead, everyone uses tablets now", but when I look around at work, about 50% of the computers are still regular PCs, the other half being laptops.
The market for open PCs where you can plug arbitrary extension cards into a PCIe slot will most likely shrink, which may drive prices up, but it won't go away for quite a while (IMHO).
- pjmlp 9y agoI am that pessimistic, because as consultant on the road, we only use laptops with docking stations, for about 10 years now. This one is a W541.
- krylon 9y agoWell, if you are on the road a lot, you need a mobile computer, obviously. Most of the engineers (probably all of them) at my employer have laptops, too. They need them, because they are on the move a lot of the time, visiting customers, construction sites and so forth. But all of the office workers have regular PCs, so do the CAD people. No, wait - strike that. Some of the CAD people have laptops, too. But there is a market for open PCs that can run any OS and software you like, that can be extended through extension cards, where you can upgrade CPU, RAM, graphics card independently of each other and so forth. It is not what it used to be, and it will continue to shrink, but I don't think it's going away completely.
- pjmlp 9y agoRight now, I see that market going into makers territory, Arduinos, Raspberry PIs and such, or the workstation/pizza box servers. But we don't know anyway.