{"id":2092,"date":"2008-08-19T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2008-08-19T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:57:13","slug":"death-to-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/death-to-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Death To The Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rip.gif\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rip.gif\" alt=\"Death of the Desktop\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2109 alignleft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE SHAPE OF COMPUTING<\/p>\n<p>Strewn across the floor and stacked in my closet are 100\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of lifeless parts.  Processors, cords, connectors and fans, dead and lifeless now, they were once proud warriors of the desktop era. Striving to be faster in a technical world consumed by speed, I greeted new processors and motherboards like a lion greets wildebeasts.   Today those dark ages are gone, replaced by a Renaissance of Mobility, or as the techies would say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153let me grab my portable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>A continuous stream of processor advancements has boosted performance tremendously. Multi core processors were introduced by IBM some 7 years ago and since then, two and four core processors have become today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s norm. Like a landslide, they are coming from Intel and AMD. A recent trip to Best Buy resulted in finding not one computer with a single core processor.  The selection of laptops was by far broader than the selection of desktops.   My count today was Desktops 18 models and Laptops 55 models.<\/p>\n<p>The advances in processors, memory, and now hard drives have left our local ISP as the main stumbling block to all things fast. If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the choice of ISP or type of service, then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the malware gremlins conspiring to slow things down. Download caps, rogue applications and malware are the Godzilla, stopping instantaneous results at the moment of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153CLICK\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s modest laptop is likely faster than the desktop you were using 4 years ago.  Yes, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m aware there were some very fast computers available back then, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking in generalities here &#8211; a four-year-old HP desktop compared to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current HP laptop. Considering memory, multicore processing, and storage, today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laptop is going to look mighty good sitting alongside your old desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago I was all excited about the camera included in my cell phone.  Hundreds of blogs were discussing the latest and greatest in mega pixels. Warnings about the need to be careful, lest you are caught in the act of being the real you, were everywhere. Now, it hardly gets mention in the advertising of phones or laptops.  Of course the portable or phone has a camera, of course it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got great resolution.<\/p>\n<p>For the consumer, desktops came first, followed by luggables, laptops, ultra portables and phones. Today it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much matter if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s labeled as an ultra light portable, a laptop or a cell phone.  They have operating systems, emails, and keyboards.  They can make, store, and play movies, pictures, and songs. You can use them for work or surf your favorite website.   At your desk, on a plane, or even driving, you can do it all and do it now.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this quote from Wikipedia, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A portable computer is a computer that is designed to be moved from one place to another. Portable computers, by their nature, are microcomputers. Early portables were unkindly referred to as &#8220;luggables,&#8221; referring to their great size and weight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Portable computing was taking shape as early as 1976 with the Xerox NoteTaker. In its day, the luggable was as exciting as today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lenovo ThinkPad X200 or the Asus eee at 9 in. and .99 kg. I bet that in 3 years it will be as hard to find a desktop as it is to find a single core processor now.  The term will be as outdated as the term Cassette or luggable. It will be just another name used to describe the shape of computing.  Just like  Mainframe, Time Share Computer Terminals, Alatar 880, Apple1, Personal Computers, Luggable, and Desktop replacements. The names given to the shape of computing could fill this page.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, in the comments section of our latest SSD article, a reader named William Thomas pretty much summed it up.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good point about the need for operating systems to be on SSD.  I believe laptops are converging with PDA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and phones.  The vogue for small laptops has returned.  I suspect we will see operating systems supplied on chips, like bios- and the SSD is a chip.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>So what are you really using today.  Is it a phone, a laptop, or a desktop.  Is today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laptop tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s luggable?  You bet it is, because what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re using today is a computer, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better, it&#8217;s smaller and it does it all. Even more exciting than that, it does it from anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rip.gif\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THE SHAPE OF COMPUTING<\/p>\n<p>Strewn across the floor and stacked in my closet are 100\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of lifeless parts.  Processors, cords, connectors and fans, dead and lifeless now, they were once proud warriors of the desktop era. Striving to be faster in a technical world consumed by speed, I greeted new processors and motherboards like a lion greets wildebeasts.   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