Does anybody use a desktop anymore?

It looks like the laptop-in-place of a desktop trend is continuing.

The Gartner tech research firm says portable PC shipments are on pace to reach 162 million units this year, a 15.4 percent increase over 2008. Desktop PCs are expected to total 136.9 million units in 2009, a 9 percent decline from 2008. Remember, last year was horrible. perhaps the worst ever. So fod desktop sales to plummet yet again portends a very dismal situtaion for the big machines that used to be the main squeeze of home computer users.

And the trend for brisk laptop growth seems to be continuing, Gartner projects that in 2010, mobile PC shipments will reach 196.4 million units, a 21.2 percent growth rate over this year. A very slight uptick in desktop sales is projected next year – 140.2 million units for miserly 2.4 percent growth.

Those new netbook mini-notebooks as a sub section are also selling quite briskly, forecast to reach 29 million this year and growing to 41 million shipments in 2010.

How about you? Desktop or laptop or netbook? What do you use and how many? How many of you use a mobile phone (like the iPhone or BlackBerry) as a second computer?

This article was posted by Tech Reporter Mike Wendland. It has been archieved under What I'm Thinkin'.

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4 Responses to “Does anybody use a desktop anymore?”

  1. R. M. Flynn Says:

    November 28th, 2009 at 3:00 am

    After using a laptop exclusively since mid-2006, I purchased a monster desktop (more accurately, "floortop" because of its size) last spring. Why? Could I afford a laptop with 8 M RAM, 750 M HDD, and a Core 2 Quad CPU at 2.83 Ghz? Don't be absurd.

    Sure, I still use the laptop with my wireless network in the house & when I travel; but the desktop is hard to beat for everyday use!

  2. Deadguy Says:

    November 28th, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Desktop laptops are too fragile and none have 5 TB of memory onboard and those tiny keyboards and funky mouse pads.. Yeeeee – uk

  3. Chris29 Says:

    November 28th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Laptops are very fragile, give a keyboard that I can thump, plenty of memory over the touch pad of the laptops!

  4. Larry Says:

    November 29th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    A laptop with a 22 in. monitor is expensive.
    The battery in my desktop hardly ever needs charging.
    I have never dropped my desktop.
    I have never run out of USB ports with a desktop.
    And the number 1 reason to have a desktop is…
    You can not bring your desktop home from (with) work with you.

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