08-31-2017, 06:17 AM
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(08-28-2017, 05:45 AM)z4v4l Wrote: sales decline. of course they cannot always grow. it's saturation. i understand PC vendors want them to always grow, but I don't understand how they could not see it cannot always grow. For example I am using PC with CPU from 2002! xD I am not going to buy a new PC every year. This doesn't mean I am not sitting in front of a PC like ~10 hours everyday.this decline of sales is a sign of market saturation and not even close to "PC disappearance".
Quote:I use a full sized keyboard every day, and a large screen too ( three of them ) but they are all SBC ( Arm ) driven ( RPi , PineA64, and Rock64 ).that's it. you still use PCs.these tiny arm boards are mini-PCs and I love their power efficiency, I am dreaming of desktops fully fanless in the future.
So no, PCs don't disappear, and my point was that Windows support for arm would make the latter a way into this sub-range - little fanless power efficient PCs. The next generation of Pinebook would be "just an ordinary laptop", which would mean its sale numbers would be several magnitudes larger than nowadays.
Quote:Of course I've not used Windows of any flavor since 1998 ( professionally and personally ).That's hardcore. I am opposite - Windows is my favorite OS. Because of it I got to love system programming and now am messing around these SBCs trying to create UEFI for them.
I'm doing some audio and video editing and processing and I haven't seen a bunch of ARM systems to supply the needs I have. Intel and MS along with others do have all the hard and software I need to do the job quickly, effortlessly and fairly cheaply. If any of you know where I can get ARM systems and apps to do that job please direct me to them. I'm new to ARM boards, I don't have the experience most of you people do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I agree the sales of prepackaged systems are dropping, most of the people I know are opting to build their own high end systems because Dell, HP and all the rest are just pushing bland cookie-cutter systems suitable for Grand Ma. As it was in the beginning when I was young and we switched from DOS to GUI OS's it's the gamers that are driving the market and product development today.