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Multiple machines, multiple OSs, narrowing apps?
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Posted by washere
Jul 21, 2019 at 09:57 PM
Yes I was going to say the same, tablets for consumers & teens/moms/elderly are still selling. But NVM techies, producers & workforce & serious pro people? Something else. Interesting data that tablets sales peakedv already. Phablets ate into it too. Discounting several e-readers, I think I have more than five good spec tablets, not sure. Haven’t turned on any of them since winter.
With a good Ultrabook one can attach anything at amazing specs, not just speedwise, with thunderbolt 3 which most don’t know what it can do or that it exists. Thunderbolt 4 spec rumors are even Wilder. Wonder how many of the public know what egpu boxes are, which are used to attach to Ultrabooks to do any level of desktop graphics from CGI to Adobe stuff to gaming to 3D etc.
Windows might focus on cloud & Macs (superb OS compared to windows) might retreat to graphics as Cook takes his eye off & Linux might rise. Who knows. But desktops & heavy productivity apps will remain strong as the world is run by them.
It’s not just wafer thin super Powerful laptops, Ultrabooks, that are doing well. Pocket laptops or Handhelds, like the GPD series or the new Chuwi minibook etc, also with lots of i/o might get big, beyond gaming & novelty factor. But rumors of the demise of big computing power for heavy productivity apps & a keyboard & lots of connectivity to devices plus running cheap multi monitors very well, are grossly exaggerated.
And tiny desktops have already taken off. It depends what one considers a PC these days, doesn’t have to be a huge box humming away under the table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WReJAsg0tw