>>15Well, well, aren't you Mr. Smartypants.
Tell me, what else is even gonna come close to providing the power of a desktop?
Just because a few peasants start picking up ARMs with crippled restriction-laden operating systems, doesn't mean the desktop is dead. (Oh, I forgot, you peasants call them
iPads)
Your inferior mind probably cannot comprehend the fact that desktops are needed and will still be needed in the future for almost everything that's of some computational importance.
Reason? Portable architectures and by extension, portable computers, are
SHIT.
What are you going to replace the power of the desktop with? ARMs? Atom? x86-portable? PowerPC?
Le cloud computing dumb terminals?
Don't care about processing power? Fine. Here's an ergonomics question. Go to any office, and replace all workstations with tablets. Try explaining to the employees that they now need to write their Project Reports on these things. Let's see how much work they get done at the end of the day.
BTW, what was the last time you saw a tablet run a office suite that was not totally, completely objectively horrible?.
What was the last time you saw any CPU-intensive program being developed on a portable computer? Why not try developing a graphics heavy video-game on a laptop?
Better still, why not try designing your oh-so-lovable apps on a tablet, or even a laptop for that matter?
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"Oh, look Mr. LeGee has a shiny new cloud-based infrastructure! I wish I had one too."
2 days later"Did you hear? Mr. LeGee lost hundreds of hours of work done, not to mention his employee credentials, because his cloud provider crapped out? Poor fellow."
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I laugh at your sorry uneducated ass.
Go back to whatever horrible cloud-ape-ing shithole you came from.