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These days, I'm debating the last time the desktop (or laptop) was relevant. Outside of professional settings, PC use has fallen off a cliff.
by dehrmann 4y ago
These days, I'm debating the last time the desktop (or laptop) was relevant. Outside of professional settings, PC use has fallen off a cliff.
- pjmlp 4y agoJust go to a coffee shop near a school or a public library and you will see how relevant laptops are.
- rbanffy 4y agoI live in a gentrified part of Dublin, and all laptops I see are MacBooks. And the Intel ones are starting to vanish.
- pjmlp 4y agoIt only reinforces the fact that laptops / desktops are relevant, regardless of the income capabilities of the owners.
- rbanffy 4y agoStill, tablets are mostly used for entertainment while laptops are most used for work. Even then, the people writing things rarely use the tablet alone, usually going with a cover with a keyboard (making it a laptop running iOS or Android).
- dehrmann 4y agoThe two things stopping me from getting a Macbook are the metal chassis (it's uncomfortable) and lack of a good data recovery story.
- Nextgrid 4y agoTo be fair, how much of it is the form factor and physical keyboard, rather than the actual capabilities of a general-purpose OS (which I assume is what is implied when talking about relevance of laptops/desktops)? I bet a lot of these people would be served just fine by a Chromebook or iOS-like experience.
- pjmlp 4y agoGiven that Chromebooks are always on sale on German electronic stores until finally someone takes them away, I doubt it. They are pretty much an US phenomenon. In any case, a flagship Chromebook running Crostini is hardly any different from GNU/Linux laptop, other than the fact that GNU/Linux is running on its own container.
- dehrmann 4y agoAren't most schools on Chromebooks?
- pjmlp 4y agoIn US, and it is a laptop anyway.