Tablets vs laptops: is the PC dead?

sajunky said:
All depends what you do on PC. IF you use PC purely for content consumption (as most of people do), you will switch to tablet soon, if you didn't do already. You don't need PC at all. Games are already served by consoles. But all creative work will be done on PC as it is now.
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Actually most people use computers for work
 
I think things are going to evolve and yes we are going to be presented with many more options... But death of the PC? Really... I don't see this happening any time soon.
 
Wrong Title

The thread should be titled "Is the PC dying?"... because clearly it's not dead.

If it were really dead, then the thread would be titled "What killed the PC?"
 
Nothing beats a nice 27" monitor, comfortable input devices, the accuracy of a mouse, space for external hard drives and other peripherals, super fast hardware, a decent audio system and Oculus Rift support. It will take an extraordinary device to pry me away from a conventional desktop PC for my primary computing needs.
 
Bryn26 said:
Nothing beats a nice 27" monitor, comfortable input devices, the accuracy of a mouse, space for external hard drives and other peripherals, super fast hardware, a decent audio system and Oculus Rift support. It will take an extraordinary device to pry me away from a conventional desktop PC for my primary computing needs.
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I have all of that with a laptop.
 
Please don't force me to lug my desktop pc to work & back every day, or make me code on my tablet the whole day long.

There's a place for all three, no one device can replace all of them .. just yet.
 
garp said:
Yes, we agree with you. Now *please* don't go there. We meant big mostly ugly beige boxes plugged into 240V mains with 30 cables plugged into the back of them, fans grinding away and R5000 water cooled graphics cards screwed into overclocked motherboards.
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If you want to make dramatic claims, it just carries considerably more weight if you are technically accurate.
 
With the PC dying MS must be quivering in their boots. Or not as the case may be.

Microsoft ignores the post-PC world and reports $4.97 billion profit on top of $19.90 billion revenue for Q4 2013

Microsoft recently celebrated the start of a new year – at least for those who watch Microsoft. July marks the start of the fiscal year for Microsoft and today they’ve shared their financial results for their fourth quarter of 2013. The big news? The company had a 10 percent increase in revenue for the same quarter the previous year. The Redmond company reported $19.90 billion in revenue for Q4 2013 as they enter their phase as a devices-and-services company.

Apparently we’ve entered a “post-PC” world, but don’t tell Microsoft as they bring in $19.90 billion in revenue, which resulted in net income (profit) of $4.97 billion. The company went on to post diluted earnings at $0.59 per share. It wasn’t all sunshine and daffodils as the Surface RT project lost Microsoft $900 million. Here’s how the main divisions within Microsoft did:

Windows - $4.411 billion revenue with $1.09 billion profit
Online Services - $800 million revenue with $372 million loss
Servers and Tools - $5.502 billion revenue with $2.33 billion profit
Entertainment and Devices - $1.915 billion revenue with $110 million loss
Business Division - $7.231 billion revenue with $4.87 billion profit
The format above is the last time you’ll see financial results reported like that. Because of the recent reorganization to a company that focuses on devices and services we’ll see a different structure. For example, devices like the Xbox, Surface and any other hardware makes falls under the leadership of Julie Larson-Green in the Devices and Studios division. It will be interesting to see how the financial structure looks one year from now.
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http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-...llion-profit-top-1990-billion-revenue-q4-2013
 
Crowley said:
With the PC dying MS must be quivering in their boots. Or not as the case may be.



http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-...llion-profit-top-1990-billion-revenue-q4-2013
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Anyone who thinks Microsoft is dying doesn't really understand the company they have become. Their business division is absolutely killing it. The Windows division is what's been suffering though. There's no way of getting around the decline in sales ofWindows and Windows machines, and in particular the failure of Windows 8.
 
Their Windows division made a billion dollars profit.
 
Business division is 8 billion. Decline of Windows division is a fact. However knowing Microsoft, if not successful they will try again and again. With such hudge resources they can afford it.
 
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