2013-02-06, 16:38
From time to time I hear people say that the "desktop" PC is dead,..or will be in the near future. Not so fast my friend.
- Mainframers have said this all along,...
- Then when PC's hit the market,.."they" (whoever "they" are) tried to sell businesses on Terminal Server. Yeah,..like that ever took off!
- and current day,.."they" are saying that Tablets will replace workstations/desktop PC's (perhaps one day,..but not as fast as they predict it will)
Some evidence:
ASRock to ship more than 8 million motherboards in 2013. ASRock was the third-largest motherboard brand worldwide in 2012.
Motherboard brand vendor ASRock is set to achieve shipments of more than eight million units in 2013, up from 7.7 million units in 2012, and will maintain its gross margin as well as ASP, according to company COO Hsu Lung-luen.
The motherboard business currently accounts for 90% of ASRock's revenues, while its home theater PC (HTPC) business is at 5% and its server and embedded product business has the remaining 5%.
and most telling:
Commenting on rumors about Intel will giving up LGA packaging and adopting BGA packaging, Hsu pointed out that the plan is for mobile product lines, which need to be thinner, such as notebooks. The desktop market is unlikely to be affected at least before the end of 2015.
Seeing that many of its competitors have entered the tablet market, Hsu noted that competition in the tablet industry has already turned unbearable for players with no advantages and ASRock does not have plans to follow suit.
Bottom-line: Look, I'm not saying things won't change,.....but just like when I saw "Back to the Future",...I'm wondering where my hoverboard is,...I mean,..shouldn't they be here by now? Things don't suddenly change overnight. I think everything has it's time and place,...a tablet is good at "tablet type tasks",...laptops same,..and also true for workstations/Desktop PCs. Me,...I'll continue watching Breaking Bad on my Nexus 7,..use my laptop when I'm on business,..and my Desktop PC (this includes HTPC) at work and home for gaming,..budgets,..taxes,...using XBMC,..
Your thoughts?
- Mainframers have said this all along,...
- Then when PC's hit the market,.."they" (whoever "they" are) tried to sell businesses on Terminal Server. Yeah,..like that ever took off!
- and current day,.."they" are saying that Tablets will replace workstations/desktop PC's (perhaps one day,..but not as fast as they predict it will)
Some evidence:
ASRock to ship more than 8 million motherboards in 2013. ASRock was the third-largest motherboard brand worldwide in 2012.
Motherboard brand vendor ASRock is set to achieve shipments of more than eight million units in 2013, up from 7.7 million units in 2012, and will maintain its gross margin as well as ASP, according to company COO Hsu Lung-luen.
The motherboard business currently accounts for 90% of ASRock's revenues, while its home theater PC (HTPC) business is at 5% and its server and embedded product business has the remaining 5%.
and most telling:
Commenting on rumors about Intel will giving up LGA packaging and adopting BGA packaging, Hsu pointed out that the plan is for mobile product lines, which need to be thinner, such as notebooks. The desktop market is unlikely to be affected at least before the end of 2015.
Seeing that many of its competitors have entered the tablet market, Hsu noted that competition in the tablet industry has already turned unbearable for players with no advantages and ASRock does not have plans to follow suit.
Bottom-line: Look, I'm not saying things won't change,.....but just like when I saw "Back to the Future",...I'm wondering where my hoverboard is,...I mean,..shouldn't they be here by now? Things don't suddenly change overnight. I think everything has it's time and place,...a tablet is good at "tablet type tasks",...laptops same,..and also true for workstations/Desktop PCs. Me,...I'll continue watching Breaking Bad on my Nexus 7,..use my laptop when I'm on business,..and my Desktop PC (this includes HTPC) at work and home for gaming,..budgets,..taxes,...using XBMC,..
Your thoughts?