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Is the desktop dead?
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A year ago in Computerworld we examined the reasons why laptops were taking over in business (see Decline of the Desktop). This year laptops aren't just on a roll with business users - consumers are scooping them up in droves as well. According to an NPD Group study cited in Business Week (see Desktops are So Twentieth Century) sales of desktop computers are down 5% while notebook sales rose 35% over a 12-month period ending in October, 2006. For the week after Thanksgiving, laptop sales were up 25% over the same week in 2005, while desktop sales fell 2%, according to sales tracking numbers from Current Analysis.
Is the desktop dead? Perhaps not, but for the average consumer it's on life support. One analyst quoted in the Business Week story predicts that the desktop will soon be marginalized to the very high end and low end of the market.
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