December 24th, 2008 by Avram Piltch
t’s getting to the point where they might as well close the mid-tower factories and throw all the ATX power supplies into a giant landfill, where they’ll rest on a layer just above the floppy drives, 56K modems, and AOL CDs. Today, research firm iSuppli announced that, in Q3 of this year, notebooks outsold desktops for the first time ever, with shipments for portable PCs rising 40 percent year-over-year while their stationary siblings were down by 1.3 percent.
Is anyone really surprised? The reasons to go with a desktop system keep shrinking (and we don’t only say that because we work at LAPTOP Magazine). It used be the case that:
Notebooks cost more. But today, the price delta between mainstream laptops and desktops is minor. Today, you can get a budget laptop that’s powerful enough to do reasonable mainstream tasks for $500 or less. You can even get a mainstream model with enough oomph for photo editing and some gaming for less than $700.
A glance at BestBuy.com as of this posting shows us that the lowest-priced desktop/monitor combination is a Compaq Presario with a single-core AMD Athlon processor and a 19-inch monitor for $399. What’s the least-expensive laptop at BestBuy.com right now? A 15-inch Acer Aspire with a dual core Intel processor and 2GB of RAM for the same $399.
source : blog.laptopmag.com
Friday, December 26, 2008
Why on Earth Would You Still Buy a Desktop?
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