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Because doing real work requires using a desktop computer.
by thrower123 8y ago
Because doing real work requires using a desktop computer.
- chrisseaton 8y agoI did my entire PhD and five years of a career without using a desktop computer whatsoever, using a laptop instead, so this isn't true is it.
- thrower123 8y agoWell yeah, sure. Laptops and desktops are largely convergent. Smartphones and most tablets are considerably more gimped.
- maxxxxx 8y agoIn this context a laptop and desktop are the same.
- commandlinefan 8y agoI think he meant instead of an ipad.
- Double_a_92 8y agoI counted laptops as desktops here...
- chrisseaton 8y agoWell ok then how about running MATLAB on your iPad - you could do a lot of productive work using just that. https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-mobile.html https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-mobile.html
- AlexeyBrin 8y agoHow many children have the money to buy a Matlab license ?
- technomalogical 8y agoIt does now. But will that be the case in the future? History seems to indicate that the interfaces and paradigms will continue to change. There will be an awkward period (now?) where you need to know both types of interfaces, but there may be a period where touch, voice, or other interfaces replace the now-archaic file cabinet metaphor that the desktop uses today. Look at Windows and all the metaphors that a child today has no context with which to relate: a manila folder, a file cabinet, a floppy disk, an address book, a wall calendar. It seems likely that this will change, and with it the need to understand today's (and that of the last 20-30 years) desktop computer.