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Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggerated. Flexibility, innovation and users' storage needs will keep it effectually a proficient long while.

The signs to the reverse are everywhere, oasis't you lot seen them?

Hewlett-Packard, the largest computer maker in the world, said Wednesday it'south looking to get out of the consumer PC business. HP believes its fortunes lie in a business organization like to IBM that focuses on supporting large enterprises instead of trying to turn a profit off the razor-thin margins of Pavilion PCs.
Also recently, Mark Dean, IBM'southward main applied science officeholder for the Centre East and Africa and an engineer who worked on the IBM'southward showtime PC, the 5150, declared the end of the PC. Dean argued the traditional mouse-and-keyboard reckoner was going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records and a number of other extinct or outmoded technologies. The IBM exec says he at present uses a tablet as his master computing device.
Marketplace research firm IDC recently cut its PC growth forecast for 2011 past nigh 3 percentage points from 7.1 to 4.ii percent (IDC and PC Earth are both owned past International Data Group).

Clearly, the PC is dead, right? Well, no.

First of all, despite falling growth in PCs this yr, IDC also predicts PC sales will rebound in 2012 driven by laptop sales. Shoppers are expected to opt for PCs next year thanks to devices with thinner designs, longer bombardment life, instant on, and touch.

But it's not just sales that volition go on the PC afloat, there also are practical reasons to keep the PC alive for the foreseeable future.

Nosotros All Bulldoze Trucks For A Living

Steve Jobs in 2010 famously compared PCs to trucks. The argument goes that more people will gravitate toward using tablets while PCs volition exist used by people who need some serious horsepower to drive downwardly the digital highway such every bit graphic designers and video editors. The premise of this argument is that people largely utilize PCs for doing email and other calorie-free typing, checking Facebook, watching videos and playing games.

The problem is an untold number of people still demand to use PCs at work, because tablets (at to the lowest degree every bit they stand up now) simply aren't up to the job.

Consider a secretarial assistant needing to simultaneously enter information into a spreadsheet, update a contacts database, create a mail merge document to send to thou clients, and search online for a restaurant for the side by side office political party. Or what almost this contempo quote from a PC World reader who works as a teacher: "I do so many things with my PCs . . . Only a short fourth dimension ago I had Excel, PowerPoint, Discussion, Thunderbird, Firefox, Notepad ++, Irfanview, Dreamweaver, and NXT-G running simultaneously. This is typical for me on any given day."

Even lowly writers are better off using a PC, every bit PC World'due south Tony Bradley recently discovered during a calendar month-long bough with an iPad.

PCs Are Flexible

Unless you own a Mac, you tin can adapt your PC to your state of affairs with relative ease. Need more than RAM? Only open up your PC up and plug in a new stick. Desire to bandy out your 320GB HDD for a 512GB SSD? No problem. Tired of Windows and want to give Ubuntu a try? It'south merely a download away.

Tablets aren't even close to being this flexible. You might exist able to jailbreak the iPad to become unauthorized software to run on it, merely that's much more than involved than inserting a bootable thumb bulldoze. Tablets are besides designed to be replaced twelvemonth after year because the hardware is largely static and unchangeable, while PCs tin change as your needs change and are typically serviceable for at least 3-5 years.

Innovation Is Out At that place

Sure, the bones expect and feel of a PC hasn't inverse that much over the years. The basic set of components including a display, keyboard, CPU, and mouse have remained largely static whether you're looking at a desktop PC or laptop clamshell. Just consider this: the standard automobile has had iv wheels, an engine, and a steering bicycle for more than 100 years, yet that hardly means that automotive applied science is standing withal.

PCs with integrated touchscreens such as the Acer Aspire Z5610 are evolving, voice control is getting better, and Microsoft's Kinect Windows SDK may open up a whole new world of interaction for the PC. Who knows? Maybe those wall-sized PC displays predicted by tech luminaries and sci-fi writers may go a standard role of most people's homes before the decade is out.

You Need To Shop Your Stuff

Correct now, tablets have puny storage capabilities compared to a PC, where 500GB drives are standard and 1TB drives are easy to come by.

But what about "the cloud," you say? "We'll just store all that stuff online." Mayhap. Only the hereafter of the cloud is currently upwardly for debate. Amazon and Google desire you to use the cloud equally if it were a difficult drive accessible from anywhere you accept an Internet connectedness.

Apple'southward iCloud, meanwhile, is designed to sync your stuff across all your devices. If Apple'south vision wins out, y'all'll withal need a device with a big amount of storage in your domicile as a fundamental repository for stuff that'southward not existence stored online such as older photos. One day, tablets may fit that pecker, just for now PCs are nevertheless a better place to keep your files.

Tablets are a smashing tool for using on the go, and it'southward a fair comment to say nosotros're living in the Post-PC era or PC-plus era as Microsoft calls it, just the PC has a lot of life left in information technology and tablets are no replacement for my Lenovo X220.

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