Hi 22Tango,
I think the PC will do what the telephone and the TV have done: become ubiquitous and protean. The appliances are beginning to appear (PDA's, web TV), and the shapes of PC are starting to multiply (desktop, laptop, handheld, wearable, etc). The market for the desktop and portable PC will continue to grow, and the market for the others will grow too. It won't be uncommon for a home to have multiple access points to the web, thru the PC, a kitchen device, and a PDA, not to mention the TV. So what? You still want a PC to do spreadsheets and taxes and games. And if you only get one kind, it'll be a PC. But businesses (Dell''s main market) don't want the appliances, and certainly don't want net PC's. I think Dell has a big market left to conquer.
I'd like to propose a little survey for the thread, which I'll post the results here if there's enough interest: How many PC's do you have access to at home? And whats the CPU and speed? PM, email or post are OK.
At my house:
Toshiba portable Intel 486 66
Clone desktop AMD 586 133
Clone desktop Intel Pentium 133
Regards,
Stewart |
