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Do you use a laptop fairly regularly?

Do you use a laptop fairly regularly?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 87.9%

  • No

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Total voters
    33
As a student I have a desktop and a laptop. Some guys are switching to an ipad, but they buy a keyboard and attach it to the ipad. I think that should count as a laptop as well.
 
I use my laptop more than anything else I own.

Not a fan of tablets. I need some horsepower, and I need a physical keyboard.
 
nightmare3983 said:
Technically yes. My only work computer is a laptop hooked up to a docking station and monitor. It works out nicely when I need to do stuff from home. Personally, where I actually have a choice, I haven't used a laptop much since I finished school just over a year ago. I use a desktop computer at home more than the laptop. At home I use my smartphone a lot more than the laptop.

EDIT: I voted no thinking about personal use before it hit me that my work computer is a laptop. I think your quote in my signature is rubbing off on me.
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This is exactly what I do too.
 
Every damn day (as I type this from my LAPTOP while sitting in MaCarran International Airport - that's in Vegas, for those of you that aren't cool enough to frickin' know).
 
My only computer is a laptop (ASUS 1215n EEEPC). I turn it on maybe 3 times a week. 90% of my internet is done on my iPhone.
 
WhiskyPriest said:
As a student I have a desktop and a laptop. Some guys are switching to an ipad, but they buy a keyboard and attach it to the ipad. I think that should count as a laptop as well.
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I agree. That's more laptop than not. I don't own a laptop, but 99% of what I use is with a desktop.
 
I used to until I got my Asus Transformer Tablet. Once Microsoft releases their Surface tablet with Windows 8, I can see laptops on their way out. At which point I will sell my transformer and get the Surface.
 
Hey moron, I never said they would be obsolete for business or work use. I said the average HOME user would move on to phones instead, and specified that tablets are considered smartphones since they have the same form factor and same OS. I was also clear that this would really start to take shape after Windows 8 was released (which runs on phones/tablets).

If you aren't just out to make yourself look like an idiot, why don't you compare the pc sales of today to the projections you idiots kept posting as your main argument? Why don't you mention that MS just had their first EVER quarter where they lost money? Why don't you mention that in 2011 Apple sold more iOS devices than they have sold Macs in the entire history of their company?

Despite your futile attempts to make me look foolish, all signs point to me being correct.

By the way, how is that BlackBerry working out for you? I believe I said some things about that a couple years ago too.
 
WhiskyPriest said:
As a student I have a desktop and a laptop. Some guys are switching to an ipad, but they buy a keyboard and attach it to the ipad. I think that should count as a laptop as well.
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catratcho said:
I agree. That's more laptop than not. I don't own a laptop, but 99% of what I use is with a desktop.
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Uh no, that's not a laptop, lol. If you recall, the first post in the thread where I made my prediction had a video of a phone docked with a keyboard and monitor. I went on to explain that the ability to use a full sized keyboard and mouse with your phone is a big reason why people will stop buying computers for home use.

If you're considering those computers and not phones/tablets, then computers have either already been antiquated, or at the very least are well on their way out.
 
perhaps a better way to phrase the question/statement would be:

"Physical keyboards will be obsolete in two years." (or something like that)

because Salty seems to be one of the few posters who thinks that a phone connected to a dock and a keyboard is still primarily a phone. It seems most posters seem to feel that something like that is not strictly a phone anymore.

Whatever you want to call it, once you have to connect it to all that equipment in order to get the functionality, you have a system of equipment that needs a desktop or a tabletop in order to be of any use. It will not be simply a hand-held device.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Hey moron, I never said they would be obsolete for business or work use. I said the average HOME user would move on to phones instead, and specified that tablets are considered smartphones since they have the same form factor and same OS. I was also clear that this would really start to take shape after Windows 8 was released (which runs on phones/tablets).

If you aren't just out to make yourself look like an idiot, why don't you compare the pc sales of today to the projections you idiots kept posting as your main argument? Why don't you mention that MS just had their first EVER quarter where they lost money? Why don't you mention that in 2011 Apple sold more iOS devices than they have sold Macs in the entire history of their company?
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again, maybe more a matter of semantics than anything, but I think many people consider a phone to be a hand-held device. Once you get beyond something simple that you carry around and can basically use one-handed, you need to call it something else. Some of us are using "computer" in a very generic sense, the way we call a tissue "kleenex" whether it is actually that brand or not.

Maybe it should be referred to as a "primary processing device" to avoid confusion.
 
moevillini said:
perhaps a better way to phrase the question/statement would be:

"Physical keyboards will be obsolete in two years." (or something like that)

because Salty seems to be one of the few posters who thinks that a phone connected to a dock and a keyboard is still primarily a phone. It seems most posters seem to feel that something like that is not strictly a phone anymore.

Whatever you want to call it, once you have to connect it to all that equipment in order to get the functionality, you have a system of equipment that needs a desktop or a tabletop in order to be of any use. It will not be simply a hand-held device.
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moevillini said:
again, maybe more a matter of semantics than anything, but I think many people consider a phone to be a hand-held device. Once you get beyond something simple that you carry around and can basically use one-handed, you need to call it something else. Some of us are using "computer" in a very generic sense, the way we call a tissue "kleenex" whether it is actually that brand or not.

Maybe it should be referred to as a "primary processing device" to avoid confusion.
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I was clear about this when I made my prediction. As I stated, the post where I made this prediction was showing a video of the Motorola Atrix phone, docked with a keyboard and monitor.

Anyone who says it's no longer a phone and is now a computer obviously doesn't program anything on either platform.

If you lay your phone on the table it's still a phone. Just because you aren't holding it in your hand at the moment doesn't mean it's no longer a hand held device.
 
LOL Salty, Phone, schmone - it's a war of words that nobody's going to win! At any rate, I picture the entire system, not just the processing unit.
 
moevillini said:
LOL Salty, Phone, schmone - it's a war of words that nobody's going to win! At any rate, I picture the entire system, not just the processing unit.
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Well if you had stated this in my original prediction thread we could have addressed it then. As I stated, in my first post in that thread, the one where I made the actual prediction that is being mocked by wes matthews, I posted a video of a Motorola Atrix phone docked with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and went on to explain that accessories like that were one of the main reasons why current PCs would no longer be used by the average home user.

Let me ask you this, do you consider a laptop that is docked to still be a laptop?

It's still a phone, no matter how you happen to be using it at the moment. You may be using it as a desktop computer, but it's still a phone.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Hey moron, I never said they would be obsolete for business or work use. I said the average HOME user would move on to phones instead, and specified that tablets are considered smartphones since they have the same form factor and same OS. I was also clear that this would really start to take shape after Windows 8 was released (which runs on phones/tablets).

If you aren't just out to make yourself look like an idiot, why don't you compare the pc sales of today to the projections you idiots kept posting as your main argument? Why don't you mention that MS just had their first EVER quarter where they lost money? Why don't you mention that in 2011 Apple sold more iOS devices than they have sold Macs in the entire history of their company?

Despite your futile attempts to make me look foolish, all signs point to me being correct.

By the way, how is that BlackBerry working out for you? I believe I said some things about that a couple years ago too.
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https://www.lenovo.com/articles/us/...ake-off-in-second-half-of-2012-idc-says-.html
 
Wes Mantooth said:
https://www.lenovo.com/articles/us/...ake-off-in-second-half-of-2012-idc-says-.html
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Did you read that article? lol, if you did then you must not have understood what you read.

Your article stated that PC sales have been lower than expected (gee, who predicted that one?) and are expected to rise after Windows 8 is released (which runs on phones and tablets) and with ultrabook sales (which it refers to as a laptop/tablet hybrid).

So they are basically saying if it runs Windows it's a PC, regardless of its form factor and architecture. But the reality is this new version of Windows that they are expecting to sell will be running on more tablets and phones than traditional desktops and laptops. So they will apparently be referring to them as PCs due to the fact they are running Windows (and this isn't the Windows you have gotten used to, it's totally different, it looks and runs exactly like the current Windows Phone OS).

You may recall me saying countless times that Windows 8 will run on ARM architecture. Now hopefully you can start to understand what that means for the industry.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Did you read that article? lol, if you did then you must not have understood what you read.

Your article stated that PC sales have been lower than expected (gee, who predicted that one?) and are expected to rise after Windows 8 is released (which runs on phones and tablets) and with ultrabook sales (which it refers to as a laptop/tablet hybrid).

So they are basically saying if it runs Windows it's a PC, regardless of it's form factor and architecture. But the reality is this new version of Windows that they are expecting to sell will be running on more tablets and phones than traditional desktops and laptops. So they will apparently be referring to them as PCs due to the fact they are running Windows.

You may recall me saying countless times that Windows 8 will run on ARM architecture. Now hopefully you can start to understand what that means for the industry.
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So you admit that PC and laptop sales are to rise and thus not be obsolete? Good to know. Just checking.
 
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