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Flight of the Desktops

Posted by timothy on from the look-out-below dept.

theodp writes "Slate's Farhad Manjoo has seen the future of computing, and it's looking mighty bleak for desktop computers. In the last decade, portable computers have erased many of the advantages that desktops once claimed while desktops have been unable to shake their one glaring deficiency — they're chained to your desk. Last year, sales of laptops eclipsed sales of desktops for the first time, and it's been projected that by 2015 desktops will constitute just 18% of the consumer PC market."

2 of 430 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Does it have a monitor and full-size keyboard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It has come to my attention that the entire desktop PC using community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

  2. STUPID NONSENSE !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is stupid. Year of the linux. Last year of the desktop. Slashdotter gets laid. All bullshit. All bullshit for a very long time.