Posted on 10/11/2012 3:00:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just curious but does anybody still buy tower computers nowadays?
Deep down, Luddites are happier.
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The market has changed. There are many things you can do on portable devices that you once could only do on a desktop.
It’s not a collapse, it’s just an evolution of the market. The portable devices we are buying still need computer chips.
Yes, but not as often. The fact is PC hardware has stabilized, there are no more must have add-ons coming out every couple of months. PCs are microwaves now, you use it until it dies, no more constantly looking for excuses to upgrade.
I bought a Win7 desktop last CyberMonday.
I prefer a desktop for most computing, but I also have a laptop that I use when I am watching TV.
I think I suffer from computer hoarding. I’m ashamed to list all the hardware I have in the home, from tower to webbook and everything in between.
I just bought a new one last year. i7 with 50 million zig-a-watts of ram and a huge 27” monitor for video editing. Can’t do that very well on a tablet.
I bought one not long ago. I have a “workstation” laptop, but when it heats up, it also slows down.
Hard to get some peripherals into a laptop, my desktop has a fiber optic IO card, a 12 channel AtoD acquisition system, a GPIB interface, and two Firewire ports. I swap in and out a couple of sound cards, depending on what I’m doing (a sound card is also a data acquisition system).
It runs faster and cooler than the laptop, and has a bit more memory.
I have a little closet that's converted into a computer room/office.
I have a desk with bobble heads, a pic of Mitt and Ann, Russian nesting dolls, a jeweled snail, a (gasp) land phone, a felt pelican, photo stills of Flash Gordon and Dale Arden in action....and my clumsy computer tower, no longer in style.
This is my own little old-fashioned gal-cave.
Stop in to visit with both me and Ming the Merciless for a cup of coffee and a slice of Martha Washington's Own Creme Cake, LOL.
Leni
I did for my wife. A mini-tower from HP is in the order of $300. It does what she wants with a big screen...:^)
I can not afford to buy anything now that I do not NEED.
My very old Sony Vaio still works for what I do, so I
will use it until it dies.
I used to use a tower, but in recent years a laptop has enough memory and stuff so you don’t really need one for most of the things I do. So I use a laptop, although I usually keep it on my desk.
On the other hand, I touch type, and I do NOT want to use any computer that doesn’t have a decent keyboard. I hope that they will modify Windows 8 so it will be usable with a keyboard without doing all sorts of fiddling with it first.
I suspect that probably computer makers like Dell will provide whatever is needed to give you that option on their laptops. I do NOT have much use for an iPad, which is hard to write on and hard for my eyes to read large texts.
I haven’t bought a tower computer in years. I buy the individual components and build my own computers.
They’re still the way to go for servers and hard-core gaming and multimedia, but for everything else a laptop does just as well and is comparable price-wise.
I used to enjoy building gaming rigs in tower cases. Big tower cases have gone the way of carbonated cars.
I can afford it, but there’s no compelling reason to replace my 5 year old (maybe even 6) PC, it works, it’s starting to feel a little slow but not much, there’s nothing I want it to do that it can’t. Maybe this time next year I’ll starting thinking about it, which means probably another year after that, unless it actually dies. Not like in the old days, back then I’d do a major upgrade of components in 18 months to 2 years after purchase, and total replacement that same window later. Some of that’s me, I’m not as interested in the bleeding edge as I used to be, but some of it is the industry too, the bleeding edge doesn’t bleed as much as it used to. Used to be there was a noticeable difference in performance of PCs more than 6 months apart in age, now it takes 2 or 3 years for a person to say “yup this one’s faster”.
I’ll probably need a newer one within the next year or so.
I have a Dell i3 tower with a video card needed by the Pinnacle and Avid packages.
For the most part, I do simple cuts and tweaking for stock footage and the once in a while youtube package. I may try to upgrade to a 7 later this year around Christmas time depending on the deals.
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