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The Desktop -- Time to Start Saying Goodbye?

Posted by Zonk on from the still-looking-for-a-headware-implant dept.

Lucas123 writes "Robert Scheier at Computerworld writes that while worldwide PC shipments are expected to grow 12.2% this year, portable PC volumes are expected to grow 28% and will make up more than half of all PC shipments in the U.S. this quarter. Notebooks will dominate the worldwide PC marketplace by 2010. 'One researcher predicts it will be five to seven years before only the "die-hard" desktop users are left.'"

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  1. You can have my desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    when you pry it from my fat, cheetos encrusted dead fingers.

  2. So, 2010 would be by presidentbeef · · Score: 5, Funny

    the year of Linux on the...laptop?

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  3. Re:Not until the keyboards improve by sgant · · Score: 5, Funny

    We may see the desktop computer disappear into the monitor, though.

    Hmmm....we may see that one day.

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