Mark Dean, one of a group of engineers who designed and built the IBM 5150 (later to be renamed the IBM PC) has said he thinks the day of the PC is over. He also said that he thinks PCs "going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light bulbs."
I have to admit, I think for general use he is right. I can only speak for myself and my friends here, but I am finding that for general computing use , people are now tending to pick up a smartphone (such as an iPhone or Android phone), a tablet or netbook. In some cases, they are using a Kindle for basic browsing.
When they want to play a game, they do so either on the tablet, smartphone etc or they fire up a console.
The one that most surprised me is one friend who was a hardcore PC gamer. He has a monster of a PC that over the years he has spent thousands on and would rebuild the PC with the hghest spec CPU, GFX cards (he would always use two), memory and motherboard at least once a year, yet when I spoke to him in the pub the other day, he admitted he hardly ever uses it now. He found that he was using mostly for web browsing and development (he runs a website for a major estate agency), and gaming. The web browsing, development he does mostly on an Android tablet, and the gaming is done mostly on an xbox now.
While I am currently looking to upgrade my PC at the moment (some of the stuff I need to do on it for work runs rather slowly on it's elderly Core 2 duo, so I am going to rebuild it around a new CPU), generally I am now the same. For web browsing, 80% of the time I use my Mac Laptop at home, 10% of the time I using my iPhone and the remaining 10% I use my PC. ?With gaming, ATM, it's about half and half, but the xbox is getting more and more use.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...c.html?hpg1=bn
What do you think? Is the PC on it's way out, is it still going strong, or will it hang around for a few years and eventually disappear?