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This might help but I think everyone is missing one of the reasons why desktop sales have tanked: Their screens. People who are using tablets don't want to loo

This might help but I think everyone is missing one of the reasons why desktop sales have tanked: Their screens. People who are using tablets don't want to look at grainy big screens. These screens look blurry. Stop in any store and check out the all-in-one Win 8 touch desktops. Their screens are awful. And yes blah blah blah higher-res NON-touchscreen with mouse -- but going back to a mouse after touch? That's another step back.

bornhuetter 13y ago
Of course that's one of the big reasons, but Microsoft don't want to say it because they don't want to be too critical of OEMs in public - and the media don't want to say it because many of them want to paint Windows 8 as a failure. Haswell reportedly has enough power in the GPU to support high res screens using just the integrated graphics - so we should see better screens in 2013 H2. Samsung and others have already announced some incredible laptop screens for upcoming devices.
NZ_Matt 13y ago
Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution? The longer lifespans of PCs and laptops combined with the popularity of smartphones and iPads is a more likely reason for the drop off in sales.
- astrodust 13y ago
  So long as a person's existing computer can still view Facebook, check email, and watch YouTube videos, there's no real impetus for them to upgrade. That tablets and phones are quite capable of doing this means there's even less need for a new PC. Microsoft doesn't add anything new. Windows 95 was appreciably better at doing what people already did, there was reason to upgrade, and Windows XP took that even further. Ever since then they've been pretty rudderless. Windows 7 doesn't offer anything that Windows XP can't already do, apart from the new theming. At least it's inoffensive, though, and lets you do whatever you want to do without putting up a fuss. Windows 8 is something nobody wants or needs, it's a very hard sell, and it's even more bizarre that Microsoft would be pushing so hard on touch into the market that least wants it: Corporate IT.
- mikecane 13y ago
  >>>Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution? I said desktop. People sit further away from laptop screens and at a totally different angle. Win 8 emphasizes touch, and all the AIO touchscreen desktop screens I've seen are too grainy to look at compared to tablet screens. Even if the pixel count is the same as a laptop, the pixels, obviously, are a hell of a lot larger.

bornhuetter 13y ago

Of course that's one of the big reasons, but Microsoft don't want to say it because they don't want to be too critical of OEMs in public - and the media don't want to say it because many of them want to paint Windows 8 as a failure. Haswell reportedly has enough power in the GPU to support high res screens using just the integrated graphics - so we should see better screens in 2013 H2. Samsung and others have already announced some incredible laptop screens for upcoming devices.

NZ_Matt 13y ago

Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution? The longer lifespans of PCs and laptops combined with the popularity of smartphones and iPads is a more likely reason for the drop off in sales.

astrodust 13y ago
So long as a person's existing computer can still view Facebook, check email, and watch YouTube videos, there's no real impetus for them to upgrade. That tablets and phones are quite capable of doing this means there's even less need for a new PC. Microsoft doesn't add anything new. Windows 95 was appreciably better at doing what people already did, there was reason to upgrade, and Windows XP took that even further. Ever since then they've been pretty rudderless. Windows 7 doesn't offer anything that Windows XP can't already do, apart from the new theming. At least it's inoffensive, though, and lets you do whatever you want to do without putting up a fuss. Windows 8 is something nobody wants or needs, it's a very hard sell, and it's even more bizarre that Microsoft would be pushing so hard on touch into the market that least wants it: Corporate IT.
mikecane 13y ago
>>>Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution? I said desktop. People sit further away from laptop screens and at a totally different angle. Win 8 emphasizes touch, and all the AIO touchscreen desktop screens I've seen are too grainy to look at compared to tablet screens. Even if the pixel count is the same as a laptop, the pixels, obviously, are a hell of a lot larger.