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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/02/09

In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Awesome. Too bad she didn't wound him instead. Imagine him then having to go back to the rest of the terrorist cell buddies and explain to them that a woman took his AK-47 and shot him with it...
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Aashish Bhagyanagar
10/02/09

@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®:
Dude these are hardcore al-qaeda affiliated pakistani militants not some nuts with guns......they dont stay down if they just get wounded.They are brainwashed religious zealots.She needed to kill one of them to set an example and scare the others away.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/02/09

@Aashish Bhagyanagar: I know. I still think it would have been funnier if he had to explain how he lost his gun. His friends would zing him afterwards by setting him up on a suicide mission to redeem himself and then give him a fake bomb. They'd secretly video tape him trying to set the thing off. Then when he returns to their hideout, cave, whatever they'd play it back while everyone rips on him..
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blash
10/01/09

In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Well, it's Skype... decrying this move as putting more crapware on our shipped OS's is like complaining if the vendor installed MS Office (not crappy works) for you for free, or even if Firefox or Chrome were installed for you. It's good software. IT professionals deploying across a fleet and power users like me will just go ahead and wipe off the shipped OS in favor of a clean/custom set up anyways.
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Nathan Obbards
10/01/09

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Am I alone in wondering why people are so obsessed with XP and stuck in using the interface?

When I hopped to Vista I thought the interface was superior, though it faced some issues. W7 is even nicer. The W7 RC is just beautiful to behold, why would you want to uglify it?
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TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
07/15/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001
Mmmm... that's pretty flimsy data to be making such a sweeping conclusion upon.

For one thing, does 'notebook' include 'netbook'? That's a huge growth area and is targetted at people who want the most bang for the buck - just the thing people want in a recession.

Take out the netbook component and see if notebooks do so well.
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Edited by TheWerewolf - Sotto voce at 07/15/09 3:17 AM

VenomIreland
07/14/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001
I'd say after the recession both will go up, but laptops more, I bet this figure include netbooks though, damn they're selling fast.
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BacteriaEP
07/14/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001
Also... am I the only one who finds it incredibly annoying to use a notebook for too long? I'd kill myself if that was my primary computer. The things get very hot and the screens on even the largest of laptops (which create more heat and are hardly laptops/notebooks) still balk in comparison to my 24" monitor...
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/14/09

@BacteriaEP: In 2003, I bought a really nice, really expensive laptop because I was going on a military deployment for 6 months, and needed to upgrade my old-ass compaq. After I got home, I used the laptop as my main computer hooked to my old-ass CRT monitor for about 90 days. Eventually I wanted to play a game that my integrated card couldn't handle. As nice as my laptop was (and actually still kind of is) spending $500 on an Emachines, and then another $300 on ram and a graphics card was the best move until I learned how to build systems myself.
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TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
07/15/09

@BacteriaEP: You do know you can connect most laptops/netbooks to an external monitor and hook in a keyboard and mouse, right?
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BacteriaEP
07/14/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001
I believe "pretty soon" is a great exaggeration. It may eventually happen but a 4% decrease doesn't at all mean its happening soon. If anything it's still a long ways off... if it even happens at all...
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Kerensky97
07/14/09

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I'm assuming that notebooks include the netbook market? I'm thinking it's mostly market driven too. In the middle of a bad economy a $300 computer+monitor combo looks really good.
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Identity (reclamation)
07/14/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001
Viva the laptop!
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/14/09

@Identity: Secret since 2008: The desktop PC is dead! Long live the home-office server!
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Identity (reclamation)
07/15/09

@DeusExMach has jumped the snark: Now you're just being silly.

Actually, I kinda like that idea for a home office. A laptop or three with a centralized backup / storage / etc area. Hmm...
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/14/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001
So what you're telling me... is that Gizmodo can predict the obvious? Brilliant!
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admoseremic
07/14/09

In reply to Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001

What does this mean? Most likely, it means we were right: the desktop PC is sputtering out.

I don't know if now is a good time to draw judgements seeing as how we're in the middle of a huge recession.
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Mike
07/14/09

@admoseremic: Um, did you read the article? Laptop sales are UP 11%.
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/14/09

@Mike: That's not really relevant. Consider that without a recession, we might have had a scenario in which laptop sales increased by 30% and desktop sales increased by 10% (just making up numbers). This year's decrease is thus not indicative of a decline in the desktop market. It only serves as a measure of relative growth between laptops and desktops.

You could argue that desktops will be extinct in the long run as computers become very fast and cheap. However, last year's sales data is not sufficient to conclude that this process has begun.
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/14/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: I love the sound of logic.
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deanbmmv
07/14/09

@Mike: And laptops are mainly a consumer item. However some of the biggest hit by the recession are business, combined with not wanting to upgrade to Vista with Win7 around the corner and the fact the business sector is a very large purchaser of desktops it more than likely shows business currently don't want to buy new stuff if they don't need to. So the lack of Busnies sales could make a major chunk of that 5%.

Also Desktops are the home of pro, power and gamer users. Who are generally skilled enough to built there own at a cheaper price. and the self-built desktops won't show up in sales data.
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Mike
07/14/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: Ouch, burned on so many levels.
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Project_J187
06/29/09

In reply to dead desktops
Did you guys just now notice the Frys laptop display growing and the tower display being the one small row in the back?

R.I.P. Tower

P.S. - I will always have one of you for my PC gaming.
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Thorax
06/29/09

In reply to dead desktops
Every computer I have ever owned has been a laptop, even before I became a college student. A laptop does everything I would use in a desktop, except it is also portable. I hate being tethered to one spot while doing work.
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Voyou_Charmant
06/29/09

In reply to dead desktops
I own both. I use my laptop when I'm drunk/lazy, or traveling. Any other time, I'm happy to have a desktop with a nice big ergonomic keyboard and mouse and nice big multiple monitor setup. I like that the towers are getting smaller, but I still need a proper desk setup and I'm not going to plug in and unplug all of that from my laptop.
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Curves
06/29/09

In reply to dead desktops
I cant predict the future, but, I am looking for a new desktop for home, which I have wanted for a couple of years, but I will NOT be saddled with Vitsa (dispite assurances from some at Giz that its all good, I fear it). I am wondering if, like me, lots of PC buyers are waiting for Win 7.
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