Intel says desktops are here to stay
CHIPZILLA is telling the world plus dog that desktops will be with us for ages, even while it is pushing the wonders of mobile computing.
Rob Crooke, vice president and general manager of Intel's Business Client Group has been telling PC World that desktops will remain with us as "long as you can think about computing".
However Crooke believes that the larger market will be in mobiles which is why Chipzilla is spending zillions developing mobile chips.
He said that Clarkdale is a case in point. Based on Intel's Nehalem architecture, it will have an integrated graphics die within the processor package, and will be made using Intel's 32-nanometer process.
Intel wants to merge Clarkdale with its vPro technology for security and manageability for the corporate market.
SMBs particularly would make sure that desktops will remain important for Intel because they are less likely to want to let their employees take laptops home with them. SMBs need lower priced hardware so desktops fit their bottom lines better, Crooke said. µ
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Stupid Chipzilla. of course DTs are to stay... which self-respecting geek would want to have a PC that you cant take apart and play with?
Or have crap hardware for that matter?
Of course desktops aren't going away anytime soon, if ever!
I think its the same reason why people don't sit at home in front of a 5" TV that is only B&W, has a single 2" speaker and only gets the local channels using rabbit ears.
Face it, small gadgets might be great outdoors but when I am at home I want something life sized, not some tiny netbook POS. Netbooks are just a fad anyway and will slowly die as more ultra thin notes come out and prices drop, hmmm then I guess Intel will need to find a new OEM sucker for that POS Atom they call a CPU.
If we all chip in together, can we bring back Paul just one day a week ?
I think Nick gets tired of re-writing press releases and I am scared that he will injure his nose with all this browning
unless the Laptop become on par with desktop performance for the same value,
i won't go nuts for mobile device...
if they was a laptop like below similary priced then i would change my mind :
a laptop with desktop class cpu, 4 slot of ram, min 2 Hard drive bay, removable videocard, with like 8 hour battery life..
...but then it would be so big that it would be called "Desktop"
back to square1 !
what about the apple angle Nick?
how bloody boring!
apart from the obvious apple fanboi twat complaing about(anything really) Nick releasing news press releases, there are no apple fanbois getting all up their communal arses about something someone(sir nick) said.
oh, ive just realised, they are all on other sites reading reviews about next upcoming Mephone, or is it the mePh0n3
hey trute hurt, there b a new MipHoen coming out, go wet yourself,
rest their beautiful magical computie computers because they need a restie restie....
there has been an announcment of a new MEMBER coming to the family
As long as they keep making their shit(chip) sucks and crappy, desktop will not have a chance of going away...
Until notebooks come with one or more 24"+ screens, fast IO, room for 6 hard drives, full speed video cards, room for 4+ sticks of RAM, a decent sound card and everything else I can put into a desktop, they will never be replaced. Notebooks have their place, and that is in mobile computing, which is what they are made for. However, they will ALWAYS be inferior in every other aspect to their contemporary desktops.
Desktop computers will eventually go away as a product for the general public within 20 years and maybe even within 10 years. There will probably still be monitors, keyboards, etc. in that timeframe (probably to wirelessly 'dock' your cell phone to), but the big CPU boxes will be replaced by the computing power in cell phones (or the monitors and keyboards themselves). Only hobbyists will still be buying bulky-boxy PC's at that point.