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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. Re:Inevitable, but sad by eclectro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I do have fond memories of browsing computer shopper (back when it was large format and over 1 inch thick). That was the best magazine evar! But people like you went on to the internet and *killed* that magazine! How could you do that??
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