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Originally Posted by Chris
I suspect you do plenty of perfectly average things with your home computer. 
You have a specialist use for your IT kit, but when you're not putting it to that specialist use, would it be fair to say that even you, a non-average punter, could get along better with something that doesn't tie you to a desk? |
See that's the thing. I do have a tablet laptop and a smartphone. I'd rather do everything on my phone and forget about the desktop, only those devices don't have enough power or flexibility for what I need. If I didn't have to get out of bed to do my gaming, I wouldn't. I wish I wasn't tied to the desk, but until laptops
are powerful enough, I am.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I think that's the essence of what we're discussing here. It is no longer necessary to have a bulky, general-purpose computer at the heart of all your various productivity and entertainment activities. That computer has its place but when those activities are not best performed sat in that place, there are an increasingly affordable and accessible range of alternative devices that can help.
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For some people, yes. Don't get me wrong, I like the concept. I'd rather have all my devices just be cloud-connected I/O devices but things just aren't moving fast enough.
We're moving closer, but the days of the PC aren't numbered just yet.