In reply to a post by NaNook:

Yes and you know a lot of people.

Yes, a fair few, certainly enough people that just don't use their computer looking at facebook or browsing the net. Musicians, video editors,, graphic designers, all need pretty poky desktop machines. some got MAcs, some got windows based machines.

i also know people who uses tablets and they don't use their laptops or desktops much these days, but that is the way they do things.

For me, i love a desktop, powerful machines that can be upgraded, use a large screen. Can you stick a large screen on a Ipad?

Oh yes and games players, i know a couple of them as well and they use powerful desktop machines, with very powerful video cards, that got more power than a tablet got alone.

Try using a Mac one day rather than licking the shop window.

I suppose you have at least 1 friend on Faceache.

Don't use it, it is for feeble minded people.

Good to know you have a wide range of experience to draw from, of course, none of it personal experience.

In reply to a post by NaNook:

Good to know you have a wide range of experience to draw from, of course, none of it personal experience.

I use a MAC thank you very much, sure not everyday as I don't own one, but I use one most weekends and I been using one this evening.

I got personal experience of using Adobe after effects on the MAC as that is how I am learning how to use After effects. not a lot of difference in the way it works between the MAc and windows version. Also been using final cut this evening.

i don't get it, if I was saying that the MAc was a naff machine, useless and other stuff like that, I would expect you get a bit upset, but i am not saying that.
But i do think it is over priced mind you.

Well, you do get what you pay for.

whilst they day will come where pcs and laptops in their current format will stop existing, its not soon, it wont be tablets killing them, tablets arent good enough. They toys.

Yes the market is shrinking as touch devices are stealing certian parts of the market but it wont be killed by them.

My sister got a £400 tablet the other day and I have to say I found it a peice of junk, it was probably twice as heavy as my laptop and far less functional and awkrawd to use.

Not necessarily. Many branded goods are overpriced.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

whilst they day will come where pcs and laptops in their current format will stop existing, its not soon, it wont be tablets killing them, tablets arent good enough. They toys.

Yes the market is shrinking as touch devices are stealing certian parts of the market but it wont be killed by them.

My sister got a £400 tablet the other day and I have to say I found it a peice of junk, it was probably twice as heavy as my laptop and far less functional and awkrawd to use.

So what will kill them?
My take is that in years to come, homes will be built with a central computer at it's core, which is powerful enough to do many things at once and every room will have a keyboard and screen and maybe a mouse if that is still the way machines are used.
so there will be no need for each person toe have a computer as it will be one shared by all, but with enough CPU power, memory and storage to cope.

Tablets/laptops will just be somehting you use on the go, come home and sync data to your folder or what ever they will call it on the main computer.

i don't think it will happen in my time, well not for people like me, but I t will happen.