Tuesday, June 7th, 2005, 8:20 am
The Demise of the Desktop
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Several sites are running an article on the recent statistical figure: laptops sales surpassed desktop sales in the States.
Will it take another 5-10 years until PDA‘s outsell laptops? Hardware is becoming smaller and cheaper; CPU speed increases rather slowly; RAM matters very little at this point where the O/S just doesn’t require it. So, smaller units might be equally good. To get a convenient workspace, one can attach an external monitor and other peripherals to the PDA while having the choice to just pull the PDA out of the pocket.
June 8th, 2005 at 11:26 am
The Demise of the Desktop
[Source: schestowitz.com] quoted: Will it take another 5-10 years until PDA’s outsell laptops? Hardware is becoming smaller and cheaper; CPU speed increases rather slowly; RAM matters very little at this point where the O/S just doesn’t req…