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The fact that laptops have increased in sales dramatically the last few years is just an indication it will be around for a long time. I'm in university right now and almost every one of my assignments now requires the use of a "computer".

Then look at game consoles. People want to say PC gaming is dying etc... no it's not. There are still dedicated PC gamers, and console's really are no different from the PC. Think about it, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are basically PC's. I mean you can play online, have chats, type messages, use services like twitter, facebook, store photos, videos, etc... They are basically PC's every sense.

If wanted to argue semantics, I'd say the mobile phone is really dying as opposed to computers. More and more people use their smartphones for everything except calling.

I'd say there's never been a better time to buy or build your own PC. should see how popular it is by phones and televisions incorporating PC-like features such as feeds, widgets etc...

People said the same thing about televisions when the PC came along, or when screens were put in cars etc... And the market only became stronger.

The PC is going through a change but so did televisions. The fact i'm hanging a 58" plasma on the wall and not a 25" CRT tube with dials sitting on a stand shows how they've changed as well.

Sorry to say, but this was a very useless article. My 7 year old cousin is using computers because his elemenatary school requires them to go online and do math problems. He's already proficient enough to enter websites, sign in, use other sites like youube etc... and he's 7 freaking years old.

As for PC's being too expensive. In 2000, I bought a compaq PC (i'm sorry I didn't know how to build my own yet) which was 900 mhz, 128 mb system ram, integrated graphics 40 gb hdd, 19" tube monitor, for nearly $1500. And it wasn't even the most powerful.

Now if I look at the FutureShop website, I can buy a Core i7, 1 tb hdd, 8 gb ram, 24" monitor for less than $1300, nvidia gts 250 and it is considered pretty top of the line.

The point is, when I bought the earlier Compaq for $1500 it was ALREADY obsolete, if I buy the new core i7 computer, it's pretty future proof for the next couple of years (maybe the graphics card could be updated).

Sorry for the long answer, but I broke it down to avoid a wall-o-text. ]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Get out while you still can, I lost a few friends along the way...]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Oh and please don't start with the whole "Seriously, guys, WoW destroyed my family" drama. If someone is letting a video game ruin their life than they have some other serious issues to contend with. It's a piece of entertainment not opium. L2get real excuses for inadequacies. ]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
PC's are not dying, everything else is just turning into a PC, and Computing itself is evolving. A more accurate statement would have been "Why Desktop PC's are Dying," or "Why Full fledged PCs will lose some market to various Internet devices." I guess he wouldn't get his typical swarm of replies if he titled his articles appropriately.

I'm sorry, but PCs are getting simpler. They are taking things OUT of the operating systems, not putting more in. Go ahead and try to find Hyper Terminal in Vista. (I'm sure there's a list of things that have been striped out of PCs, but that was the only example I could come up with.) The OS makers are trying to make the OSes as simple to use. Look at Ubuntu. It has very minimal features installed by default and it's a full fledged PC OS. Vista did the same thing, and took a ton of features out to make it more simple. They added some new things in, sure, but Saying PCs are becoming more complex seems silly, and highly inaccurate.]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
I want to see if PC's are really dying. ]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 8th 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 8th 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/please end with a sarcasm tag]]>Aug 7th 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
I think there are just a lot of douche bags who hate Apple so much they have to go after anyone who even mentions their name. If Engadget wrote an entry entitled "Ask Engadget: Who's your favorite computer manufacturer?", anyone who listed Apple would get flamed to death.]]>Aug 7th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/BEFORE YOU ALL POUNCE -- I do, however LOVE windows, and I am currently working on some of the bugs in Windows 7 RC using Boot Camp (another thing you'll not get on a Windows PC). I just has to be put of until my spare time, that's all.

Being the person looking from a mixture of perspectives, they are both PC's. Find the one you love -- be it Windows or Mac.


Nigeliciousx3]]>Aug 8th 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/]]>Aug 8th 2009 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/...which is a car.]]>Aug 8th 2009 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Thats the point. Macs are PCs the same way BMWs are cars.]]>Aug 8th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Ah nevermind, i'm just screwing around.]]>Aug 8th 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
WTF you takin' about willis??]]>Aug 7th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 8th 2009 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Seriously, someone explain where 90% of the "information" in this article came from.]]>Aug 8th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
And are you seriously contending that smartphones and tablet PCs are even in the same market as PCs? Is this a joke? ]]>Aug 7th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Sir Babbage is deeply dissapointed with you.
Thanks
PC
P.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
hey, guys! computers are useful! watch out, they might get old one day!]]>Aug 7th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Although also probably not a replacement my next try will most likely be an Archos or Viliv product.]]>Aug 7th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/i mean who rather watch a movie on an iphone then a 13 or 15 inch screen and a pc is a thing that you can share with your friends try watching a movie with 3 others on the tiny iphone screen with the crappy speaker]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
The PC is not dead or dying. It might take on other form factors (HTPC, All in One PC, Laptops, etc.) but it will be here for all of eternity.

And please get a larger computer screen.]]>Aug 7th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
Smartphones today are amazing! But they are great phones... not great small computers.]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
I use a laptop, and half the time it's in closed-lid mode, connected to a monitor and keyboard. Consolidating my desktop and laptop has been advantageous (only one CPU to buy, all my files on one computer). I'd consider consolidating my smartphone into the mix, if it was powerful enough to act as my desktop CPU.]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/And your name is pretty awesome. ]]>Aug 8th 2009 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 8th 2009 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 8th 2009 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/Aug 7th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
The average users overwhelmingly outnumbers the niche-nerds like use.]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/entelligence-the-death-of-the-pc-is-greatly-exaggerated-at-lea/
However, when you get into the cheaper PCs, like $300-$600 it's always a better deal to buy prebuilt. The savings are substantial, especially taking into account that you also get a monitor included. These are what most people are buying, and to build the same out of new parts would be more expensive. This is why the mainstream will not build computers.]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:09PM