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HP Or No HP: The PC Lives | Technology
First of all, despite falling growth in PCs this year,
News
IDCalsopredictsPCsaleswillreboundin2012dri-
ven by laptop sales. Shoppers are expected to opt
Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggera-
for PCs next year thanks to devices with thinner
ted. Flexibility, innovation and users' storage needs
designs, longer battery life, instant on, and touch.
will keep it around a good long while.
Butit'snotjustsalesthatwillkeepthePCafloat,
The signs to the contra-
there also are practical reasons to keep the PC alive
ry are everywhere, ha-
for the foreseeable future.
ven't you seen them?
We All Drive Trucks For A Living
*Hewlett-Packard,
the largest computer
SteveJobsin2010famouslycomparedPCstotrucks.
maker in the world,
The argument goes that more people will gravitate
said Wednesday it's looking to get out of
toward using tablets while PCs will be used by people
the consumer PC business. HP believes its
who need some serious horsepower to drive down
fortunes lie in a business similar to IBM
the digital highway such as graphic designers and
that focuses on supporting large enterprises
video editors. The premise of this argument is that
insteadoftryingtoprofitofftherazor-thin
people largely use PCs for doing email and other
margins of Pavilion PCs.
light typing, checking Facebook, watching videos
* Also recently, Mark Dean, IBM's chief tech-
and playing games.
nologyofficerfortheMiddleEastandAfrica
and an engineer who worked on the IBM's
The problem is
a n
firstPC,the5150,declaredtheendofthe
untold number of
PC. Dean argued the traditional mouse-and-
people still need
keyboard computer was going the way of
to use PCs at work,
be -
the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records
cause
tablets
( a t
and a number of other extinct or outmoded
least as they stand now) simply aren't up to the job.
technologies. The IBM exec says he now
uses a tablet as his primary computing
Consider a secretary needing to simultaneously
device.
enter data into a spreadsheet, update a contacts
* MarketresearchfirmIDCrecentlycutitsPC
database, create a mail merge document to send to
growthforecastfor2011bynearly3per-
1000clients,andsearchonlineforarestaurantfor
centagepointsfrom7.1to4.2percent(IDC
thenextofficeparty.Orwhataboutthisrecentquote
print
joli
and PC World are both owned by Interna-
from a PC World reader who works as a teacher: "I
tional Data Group).
do so many things with my PCs . . . Just a short time
ago I had Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Thunderbird,
Clearly, the PC is dead, right? Well, no.
Firefox, Notepad ++, Irfanview, Dreamweaver, and
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HP Or No HP: The PC Lives | Technology News
NXT-G running simultaneously. This is typical for
at a desktop PC or laptop clamshell. But consider
me on any given day."
this: the standard automobile has had four wheels,
anengine,andasteeringwheelformorethan100
EvenlowlywritersarebetteroffusingaPC,asPC
years, yet that hardly means that automotive tech-
World's Tony Bradley recently discovered during
nology is standing still.
amonth-long bender with an iPad.
PCs with integrated touchscreens such as the Acer
PCs Are Flexible
AspireZ5610areevolving,voicecontrolisgetting
better, and Microsoft's Kinect Windows SDK may
Unless you own a Mac, you can adapt your PC to
open up a whole new world of interaction for the
your situation with relative ease. Need more RAM?
PC.Whoknows?Maybethosewall-sizedPCdisplays
Just open your PC up and plug in a new stick. Want
predictedbytechluminariesandsci-fiwritersmay
toswapoutyour320GBHDDfora512GBSSD?No
become a standard part of most people's homes
problem. Tired of Windows and want to give Ubuntu
before the decade is out.
a try? It's only a download away.
You Need To Store Your Stuff
Tabletsaren'tevenclosetobeingthisflexible.You
might be able to jailbreak the iPad to get unautho-
Right now, tablets have puny storage capabilities
rizedsoftware to run on it, but that's much more
comparedtoaPC,where500GBdrivesarestandard
involved than inserting a bootable thumb drive.
and1TBdrivesareeasytocomeby.
Tablets are also designed to be replaced year after
year because the hardware is largely static and un-
But what about "the cloud," you say? "We'll just
changeable, while PCs can change as your needs
store all that stuff online." Maybe. But the future of
changeandaretypicallyserviceableforatleast3-5
thecloudiscurrentlyupfordebate.Amazonand
years.
Google want you to use the cloud as if it were a
hard drive accessible from anywhere you have an
Internet connection.
Apple's iCloud, meanwhile, is designed to sync your
stuff across all your devices. If Apple's vision wins
out, you'll still need a device with a large amount
of storage in your home as a central repository for
stuff that's not being stored online such as older
photos.Oneday,tabletsmayfitthatbill,butfornow
Innovation Is Out There
print
joli Sure, the basic look and feel of a PC hasn't changed
that much over the years. The basic set of compo-
nents including a display, keyboard, CPU, and mouse
have remained largely static whether you're looking
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Tablets are a great tool for using on the go, and it's
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