Re: The end of the desktop?
- From: "~misfit~" <misfit61nz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:09:36 +1300
Somewhere on teh intarwebs "BillW50" typed:
In news:gk7i4b$tqr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Tom Lake typed on Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:13:20 -0500:
There's a difference between not being dominant and not
being at all. If you had titled this, "The End of Desktop Dominance"
then I'd agree with you. There will always be a market for desktop
sized systems where expandability is important. My desktop has
three hard drives, two DVD burners, a Blu-Ray burner, a floppy drive,
a tape drive, slots for SD cards and devices, twelve USB ports (of
which nine are filled) a serial port with a device attached, a
parallel port with a device attached and a PS/2 mouse and
keyboard port with a bar code reader, keyboard and mouse
attached. When a laptop can do all that, I'll switch but until then,
I need my desktop!
Tom Lake
And why can't you do all this with a laptop Tom? I have 9 laptops
right here and any of them I can have the following connected in
seconds:
1) One USB floppy drive
2) Three USB hard drives
That's fine if you've got all day to move large amounts of data. Until USB
3.0 is common there's no comparison between the speed of transfer between
internal SATA II HDDs and HDDs connected via USB.
I know, I've got 3TB worth of data on 3.5" SATA II HDDs and am accessing and
moving it via USB docks connected to a laptop at the moment. If I want to
move 300GB it's a matter of 'start the copy and come back in a few hours',
often to find the process has hardly started and there's a box asking if I
really want to move blah blah...
eSATA? Only if your laptop has an expresscard slot, and then it's still far
from the speeds attained by internal (hot-swappable) SATA drives.
"The end of the desktop" is a long way off yet.
3) USB TV-FM Tuner
4) VoIP phone
5) Many card readers
6) Two USB DVD burners
7) Wireless keyboard/mouse
8) External 19 inch monitor
9) Sync my Palm IIIc
10) Sync my blood glucose meter
What a tangle!
Plus I can add what you have on your desktop to any of my laptops as
well. Since laptops come with USB ports and many devices can be
connected up by USB, the need for desktops is not necessary for all
but a very few.
I've read your posts Bill, I know that you're a netbook zealot, a man on a
mission. However, they're not for everyone and never will be. They will
always be a niche product for the forseeable future, although that niche may
well grow.
--
Shaun.
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