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Will notebooks,netbooks,nettops replace PC?

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What is your idea? Notebooks,slim notebooks, netbooks and nettops are getting more popular everyday.
Do you believe they are going to replace (desktop) PC ?
 
The intention was never to replace the desktop. Too many desktop enthusiasts,and hardware mods you can't do and/or are limited with a laptop/netbook.

Did you realize.....the main function in common of all 3 you mentioned is "Portability"?
 
Not completely. I think a lot of small businesses and homes will transition to nothing but laptops and netbooks over the next few years. But desktops will have a place in medium to large business, with gamers, and those that have no need for something portable for a long time to come.
 
I think portability will replace the desktop PC for many people, and it already has. But the PC will not cease to exist. I know a lot of my family and even my gf just simply don't want to buy a desktop because they'd rather be able to bring something with them when they travel or be able to bring into the living room or bedrooms. There will always be desktop PC's though, for sure...there's enthusiasts, gaming, etc. Stuff that laptops just can't handle at a reasonable price or other factors like heat, reliability, or battery consumption.
 
Too many enthusiasts for that to ever happen :D

I love my netbook, but I can't be without my desktop for extended periods (weeks). Watching TV on the sofa, outside grilling on the patio, or on trips... all great moments to own a netbook. :D
 
I agree. Portables are okay for low-intensity stuff like facebook, myspace and twitter, to other things like code editing, server monitoring and administration, or when some of these things need to be done from an offsite location, but even most notebooks lack the horsepower for more intensive tasks. Gaming, for one, but some of our developers need either one extremely beefy system or several systems in order to get work done. One user, in particular, is running OS X, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 all on one computer, simultaneously, each on it's own 23" display. He's usually in Flex Builder and Visual Studio on two screens while one is keeping track of servers and retail store computers and the last holds various browsers for testing. For that sort of thing, a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of ram just isn't going to cut it.

At home, having a notebook is handy because I can write code on the notebook while watching TV, or I can go into the garage or workshop with it and still be online. But, if I'm in my room working with the desktop, I might be playing a game on one screen, while watching a blu ray on a second and keep Firefox open on a third.
 
Desktops are still cheaper, more powerful, and more expandable than a laptop. Business will always use desktops, even for security reasons. (They don't want you taking your work home or losing all that valuable information.) I think overall, consumers are going to be purchasing more portable computers, since they are more than powerful enough for what most people do. I think in the past 3 years, I know of one person buying a desktop. And like 20+ people buying laptops. If it wasn't for the enthusiast in me, I'd go all portable too. I like building desktops cause it ends up being cheaper and I enjoy it. Using those DIY laptop kits ends up being more expensive AFAIK.
 
I could see it being replaced for the common person where all they do is internet, e-mail, and word processing. People that actually use their computer, not a chance in hell. My laptop is useless for at least half of the things I do.
 
I see a point where general consumers barely ever own desktops.

Enthusiasts and some Businesses will always have a need though IMO. You just cant fit the same power into small platforms right away, it comes to desktop scale first (actually servers), then is scaled down to laptop, then netbook/etc.
 
PolygonGTC said:
I could see it being replaced for the common person where all they do is internet, e-mail, and word processing. People that actually use their computer, not a chance in hell. My laptop is useless for at least half of the things I do.
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very true. the other thing to take note of is pricing and appeal. a laptop is small portable and becoming the "in thing" for people to have. they do have their uses but for anything requiring any kind of real power a laptop just doesnt cut it. add to that the fact that laptops are basically "throw away" items just as mp3 players are now. some people want a minivan, others want a sports car. i doubt the pc as we know it will ever be replaced by a laptop...until they can make hi end swappable cpus, a mini 5970 and jam that into a laptop......with flip out eyefinity screens...8+ usb ports and a real keyboard and a real mouse ..hey nice idea.
 
Only for certain people.
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Laptops and netbooks provide portability at the expense of performance. As others have said, I can see them becoming more prevalent with people who only need basic word processing, webrowsing, chat, email, music, videos, etc, but with anything else, especially when you get into high-end tasks such as gaming, multimedia work/graphics, servers, etc, a PC can accomplish more, and even though there are laptops which can handle these tasks, they cost a lot more money than a desktop PC that does the same thing.

Add in that laptops are much harder(and sometimes damn near impossible) to repair and upgrade, I'd say that desktops are here to stay.
 
Netbooks are pretty useful, but when push comes to shove, you need something more powerful. Even with higher quality streaming video netbooks are starting to show their limitations.

In fact, there hasn't been much netbook innovation since the EEE 701 moved to a 9 and 10" screen with an Atom processor. I'd like to see a next gen netbook.
 
the next step i think is the intel 330 to go into them, but other than that almost %90 of netbooks use the same cpu/ram/hd and OS, pretty sad really.
 
MrGuvernment said:
the next step i think is the intel 330 to go into them, but other than that almost %90 of netbooks use the same cpu/ram/hd and OS, pretty sad really.
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Even the "next gen" D410/D510 wasn't all that much of an improvement.
 
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