IBM: PCs are "Going The Way of Typewriters"

[jcesmi]

"Mark Dean, the chief technology officer of IBM Middle East and Africa"

they dont have many PC's in middle east africa. Thats why this guy has gotten confused

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

We want modular upgradable STANDARDIZED laptop platforms please!!!

THAT would be great. It's stupid that you can't replace a GPU in a laptop or add a second one...

 

[Darkerson]

Not this shit again... Seriously?

 

[drwho1]

Another 30 years from now and we will still be reading articles like this one telling us "how the PC will finally die".

I will still be laughing at this articles.

 

[three0duster]

And 99% of what you are reading on TomsHW was written, designed, and viewed on one of these PC devices. lol

 

[zaho0006]

One thing that I don't really get is that everything is still a computer, netbooks, ultrabooks, tablets, smartphones, whatever you want to call each of the long list of consumer devices. While they all vary slightly in form factor and OS, they still all use a keyboard and cursor and function off the same basic parts.

 

[bv90andy]

I'm sick and tired of people saying that PCs are going the way of the dinosaur and also that "social media is the future" - and maybe "Farmville is the future". bollocks.

 

[steelbox]

[citation][nom]dogman_1234[/nom]What a joke. Doesn't anyone know what PC stands for: Personal Computer? Isn't that what a smartphone/tablet/laptop/desktop is? Personal and a Computer? I laugh when people say PC is dying. I think they mean the 'DESKTOP' is dying. The big clunky things that are better than many other computational devices, except supercomputers?[/citation]

I believe he was talking about the PC Architecture with is open and that differs from an Table/Phone like Ipad/Iphone with is an closed architecture. But i agree with you, it is not diyng.

 

[Guest]

Unless battery technolgy improves, PCs will be there.
My Galaxy S2(Smartest phone available) needs to be charged every day. (On full usage)

 

[nebun]

ok...if you think about it, laptopsand a tablets are also considered to be a PC....what an idiot, stupidity is dangerous

 

[ddemon]

Ok so i don't consider myself the most up to date tech user but i have to agree we are moving away for the desktop, it's becoming old school ...lol. I have had my PC hooked up to my flat screen TV for some time now and an android smart phone, I’d love a good tablet but ..lol ... i also have the old school desktop PC but only use it when i can't get my girl off the TV PC with the cordless mouse and keyboard. We have come a long way since i phone was only a thing you rang people on and a clock wasn't built into everything, everything changes, my phone now has more CPU power and more RAM than the desktop PC i was still using 7 or 8 years ago (ok yes it was out of date even back then ...lol). I don't think the PC will really be dead until we can implant them directly into our heads ...lol... until then they will just change and adapt to the times.

 

[Guest]

PC are for Pros as Tablets are for Noobs. The reason the Tablet will overtake the PC in time is because it's noobproof and designed so even the slowest of people shouldn't have a problem using the device.

As we all know, a majority of people are as smart as a box of rocks when it comes to technology (or just about anything that doesn't involve sports or reality TV). Hence the future of computers will be dumbed down further and further as to comply to the level of intellegence of the average consumer.

 

[eyemaster]

Maybe when a whole desktop can fit into something the size of a phone, but I don't see that coming anytime soon. Yes, smartphones are very powerfull, but a desktop will always be more powerfull simply because there's more that can be put into it.

 

[gto127]

I'm sorry but minature devices don't have the real estate for normal user input for business needs. Business segment of computing will be here for along time. In the home I predict that as home blu ray players get more & more features some manufactures will eventually give in and make them into full internet surfing computers to increase their sales. This move would actually increase the number of computers instead of decrease.

 

[K2N hater]

IBM is just trying to make their move (selling their entire desktop/notebook line to Lenovo, which is 1 of the worst assemblers around) seem like the best deal in decades.

Microsoft is just trying to sell their products - as always - even though they don't really struggle to make their offerings any better. They want to tie PC users to Windows and Office like Apple do with their products but rather than attracting dummy users to PCs with hype they make them buy smartphones and consoles instead.

 

[Burodsx]

Someone obviously doesn't play high end video games. I do agree that computer sales will decrease, but that's only because computer reliability is better and more people are building computers.

 

[ronch79]

Intel used to say that the Pentium 4 is the center of your digital world in one of their ads back when they were still selling the CPU. And today, I believe your PC (hopefully not using a Pentium 4 anymore) is STILL the center of your digital world. It's not like you can make full use of your gadgets without a PC. You need your PC to put movies and music into your iPad. You need it to edit videos from your digital camera. You need it to write video files on a USB for playback on your DivX-capable DVD player. You need it to put music on your MP3 player. You need it to backup contact data from your phone and put music, videos and other stuff in it. You need it to write documents and email people (tablets can do that, but let's hear you curse doing it). Sure, you can transfer music from device to device using Bluetooth or microSD, but that's about it. Surf using a tablet? Ok, but with such a small screen I still use my PC to check the website's real version.

The PC may be bulky, but hey, laptops are PCs too. They STILL are and always will be the most powerful and versatile devices. They've been here for decades. All the other new devices are cool, but they've yet to prove their longevity in the world. PDAs and Netbooks have shown that new form factors may prove to be just fads, later on being relegated to small niches. Even tablets which are all the rage nowadays may one day lose their fizz.

 

[Guest]

Just like the Type writer the PC is a communication device. the type writer evolved from the printing press and the PC evolved from the type writer the PC found capabilities beyond what was expected. the new phones are just new smaller evolved versions of PC so I do not think the device is going anywhere soon not untill we learn to plug into our brains untill then The PC what ever we call it ib the future will evolve as it has been and we will discover new capabilities.

 

[rosen380]

I look at it that if the current tablets have enough power for atleast 90% of computer users [internet, email, streaming movies, etc].

If I had a desk with a monitor [or multiple monitors] keyboard and mouse that when the tablet was nearby would wirelessly connect to them and switch over from a tablet-friendly OS to a desktop friendly OS instantly, I think something like that would work for 90% of the population [desktop and tablet in one, maybe a dock like the transformer as well making it also a laptop]. Plus it'd probably still work for atleast 50% of the computer use of the other 10% [ie, your typical power users' secondary machine].

If overall tablet performance doubles every 18 months, as computers tend to do, then those percentages would just continue to increase...

 

[Zeh]

[citation][nom]jimslaid2[/nom]And I thought the peeps at IBM were intelligent.[/citation]

Apple said people were holding the iPhone the wrong way. Maybe they aren't intelligent, everyone else is just dumb.

 

[banaanc]

i doubt its too far from time where you can hook up your phone to your monitor/tv and play games, new phones are about about as powerful as my old pc i used few years ago

 

[cjoki]

I wish "experts" would get a clue before they open their mouths. A tablet at best will become a niche market. The interface is not really all hat great for anything beyond simple inputs.

Ask yourselves this, would you rather write an article, term paper, or any other large document on a PC or a tablet? What about designing a new product in a 3d cad program? What about programming?

I know you can connect a keyboard to a tablet....but then you just got yourself a netbook.

What I do see tablets good for is mobile entertainment and a digital clipboard and simple social media interactions...which is what they are used for.

Tomshardware, can you add a rating system like what wikipedia is doing so us readers can "grade" non-sense like this without the readers having to read 3 pages of comments?

 

[davewolfgang]

I'd like to see a Tablet, or even a netbook run this.

And that's about mid size for some of the setups at my office.

 

[acadia11]

I don't think the PC is going away, I think it's evolving, in that everything is being connected, you may not one day need big box sitting on your desktop to get work done. Perhaps, you just have a central system, or a media unit, and you interact with the cloud to get software loaded? YOu might yuse kinect gestures plus speech recognition to navigate and write your word document, and you send it off via e-mail, no need for postage, etc ... The PC as we know it, hasn't disappeared, it's just everything is becoming some variant of the PC, whether it be your cellphone , your TV, and so on ... the basic premise is still there, the power of personal computing, but the means to do so and the number of devices that interact in that medium is what is changing.

 

[christop]

Mark Dean must be stupid and who ever else thinks this BS.