Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it

I played Evercrack on a laptop for years. Wasn’t so bad.

I played WoW on a laptop in the 2007-2008 timeframe too, and it wasn't bad either. But over the past 2-3 years my eyes have gotten a lot worse, and now laptops are pretty unusable. Mobile devices with those tiny little screens are out of the question - I hate them.

A nice big 24" or larger monitor is where it's at now - regardless of what kind of box it is - a laptop, mini tower, full tower, or a small potted/soldered/throwaway micro-box of the future. As long as I can plug in a big screen monitor to a DVI/HDMI port I'm happy.

Back in the 90's and early 2K's I upgraded [AMD] processors on a couple of motherboards - but no more. Now it's out with the old box & in with the new (now with Intel CPUs), and I don't open the box for anything more than upgrading graphics cards & power supplies to fuel them. Unsocketed motherboards are a don't care for me at this point. And I do wonder what AMD is going to do about this, and if it's a new opportunity for them. I haven't bought an AMD processor in 7 or 8 years now.

This article is outrageously misleading. Desktop sales are expected to exceed 150 million per year worldwide through at least 2016, actually increasing from the current amount. There is now way this has anything to do with the end of the desktop.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23549112

It is only about cpu upgrade. Only a very tiny amount of enthusiasts bother with cpu upgrade anymore anyway.

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