FabSwingers.com forum: Is it the End of Desktop and laptop?

By *ieutenant OP Man
over a year ago

london

Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Other than my work laptop I haven’t used one for several years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We will never move to tablets and phones only, typing is far faster on a real keyboard. Hate using a phone to send messages or use the forum here as it's so slow.

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By *est Wales WifeCouple
over a year ago

Near Carmarthen

Using a desktop now.

It's impossible to do many tasks like serious photo editing on anything but a desktop and multiple monitors.

So no - it's just the evolution of 'horses for courses'.

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham

"Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop."
laptop obsolete.... Oh no that's wrong. I used mine 5 minutes ago

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

"We will never move to tablets and phones only, typing is far faster on a real keyboard. Hate using a phone to send messages or use the forum here as it's so slow. "

Quite right can’t beat a proper keyboard to send emails etc and chatting in the chat rooms on a laptop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I only really use my laptop for the chat rooms on here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

using laptop now, much prefere a proper keyboard

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By *tarburst babydollMan
over a year ago

Dingwall

On the laptop now. Always use the laptop if I am at home. If I am away I dont even answer emails until I get home on the laptop

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By *s24Man
over a year ago

Broughton

Being a software engineer Desktop and Laptop are still essential for what I do.

iPad and smartphone are essential bits of tech and when i travel i have both to hand, but nothing replaces Desktop/Laptop power and Operating Systems, they all just compliment each other.

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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago

atlantisEVOLUTION. Stoke

If you are just flicking through FAB then a phone is probably all you need but there are a billion things that you can't do with a mobile phone.

Just in my interest . . .

- FTP.

- Full Website building and maintenance.

- Photo-processing (no not just the occasional filter lol)

- Company accounts.

- Update your car satnav.

- Graphic Design.

- High end gaming.

- Professional Movie editing.

- Database Processing.

- Full Office Level Word Processing.

- Digital Pen and Ink.

- Vinyl T-Shirt Processing and Design.

- Any Serious Astronomy.

- . . .

Nope. The Mobile phone isn't there quite yet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We still use laptops and p.c in our house and work probably will for many years to come too

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I use a desk top daily and a lap top several times a week. It's all about screen size for me

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By * and BCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Typing this on our Laptop. Looks like Laptop is not dead reading previous posts

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By *abrina59TV/TS
over a year ago

moved to cuckold land

Desktop an hour ago

Def much easier type and keep track of fab there rather than tablet (which I'm on now though lol)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Desktops are too multi purpose and can be made very well so its doubtful, tablets and phones are still going to get much better no doubt about that and some tasks will definitely be delegated to them but PCs and Laptops are just too useful

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By *ooking4othersMan
over a year ago

Here ...

I use a 2 in 1 device so best of laptop and tablet ... cast to TV etc if need larger screen.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop."

I don't think it's true that laptops are obsolete in most households. For editing documents and photos no tablet or phone will ever be better than the combo of a large screen and keyboard. Desktops on the other hand are probably in decline, except for gamers, simply because they're not mobile and take up more space. Love my laptop!

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By *lanemikeMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Only ever used a desk top PC...... Would not have clue where to start with these other "gizmos"...!!! iPad...what is one of those?!!

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By *andK78Couple
over a year ago

Newport

Laptop always to hand for anything involved on the net like banking, booking holidays or anything important. Much better if your shopping also with multiple pages open.

Gaming is still a big thing and serious gamers will have high end PC built, our daughter has had a desktop setup for a while, helping her no end with education, learning the way around the net, keeping in touch with her school friends, she is getting more involved with gaming while most of her friends play on there tablets and the graphics and screen play are terrible, she is playing the same online and full graphics, large curved screen with still able to Social with her friends.

That's our take on laptop desktop, be a while before there gone.

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By *ittleMissCaliWoman
over a year ago

all loved up

I have both desk top and laptops.. I use them for more than I do my tablets as I do a lot of typing x

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By *ud and BryanCouple
over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

We have to use our desktop to run our society & website, so hope they'll be around a while yet.

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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

CAD drawing - can't beat a desktop with nice big, multiple screens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember when you used to have a computer desk in your home with a tower for your desktop, mouse and keyboard?

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Haven’t used desktops or tablets for years , elitebook and iPhone. Used to do all that docking and stuff but usbC solves all that , have 2 ASUS usbC hi res screens that need no power

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use a desktop for producing music, writing lyrics, stories. I play games and use it as my tv as I don't watch terrestrial or sky/virgin etc.

Yes, phones/tablets etc have the same functions but desktops are superior for many reasons.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"Remember when you used to have a computer desk in your home with a tower for your desktop, mouse and keyboard? "

I find it odd than in many offices in the UK people still “sit” even when being given the offer of standing desk or risers , if you’re offered and refuse there no claim anymore ... in other countries we often dint get the choice anymore , you stand

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when you used to have a computer desk in your home with a tower for your desktop, mouse and keyboard?

I find it odd people have a desk and are expected to turn up at an office for set times... in an age when you’re never turned off due to work e-mails and the ability to work from anywhere... give people a chance?

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By *entralscotscpl7Couple
over a year ago

Falkirk

Showing my age but my oldest son is ditching his playstation in favour for a gaming laptop.

He also mentioned building his own pc????

Don't know how easy that would be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love my new 16" macbook pro

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By *r_TrojanMan
over a year ago

In The North

It is going to be a while yet before laptops are replaced by portable devices.

I love using my laptop to edit my photos, play the odd games (mainly Final Fantasy

) and watch movies.

I will be looking forward to the day mobile devices can help me do the things I do on my laptop quite easily...

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By *ivingTheLife6365Couple
over a year ago

East Mids.

"Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop."

Sat in front of a laptop right now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when you used to have a computer desk in your home with a tower for your desktop, mouse and keyboard?

Hmm, standing all day at a desk with arthritis in the knee and sciatica, yep that would be really useful,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when you used to have a computer desk in your home with a tower for your desktop, mouse and keyboard? "

Like right now you mean?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have both and the laptop is essential for work and any typing activity

Daughter is at uni and has desktop as it's way more useful than the iPad or her phone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Today for both - I'm a PC gamer, which accounts for the desktop, and I've been writing something on my laptop.

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By *hebritukCouple
over a year ago

London

Does my iMac count?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

3 years since I last used a desktop x

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By *ntrepid ExplorersCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

All day every day of the working week. Dead? Pull the other one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Desktops will never become obsolete, maybe compact.

Gamers which is one of the biggest industries in the world keep that ball rolling.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Today

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port

Used my laptop this afternoon but drives me mad that the keyboard hasn't got autocorrect - using my phone so much these days has made me keyboard lazy!!

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By *pertureTV/TS
over a year ago

New Ferry, wirral in stockings and sussies

Never replace my desktop except with another, try editing portraits on a ipad or even a laptop, screen estate is a big positive, as is a good graphics card fast processor loads of memory and about 12 terabytes of disk space.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Yesterday. Lots of software can only be used on a laptop/desktop.

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By *tticusukMan
over a year ago

Formby

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think mobile phone technology has advanced so much and will continue to do so don't think it's the end yet but it's on its way

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By *tticusukMan
over a year ago

Formby

"Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop."

Nope an tablet will never have the computing power or speed of a laptop let alone a desktop.

I do a lot of picture editing and it’s a nightmare doing it on a iPad pro compared to my MacBook.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop."
i don't have one

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod
over a year ago

My Own Little World

For basic web browsing a Tab is fine, but I find them limited, so for anything more I always use my lappy.

My kids both have tablets gathering dust on a shelf, they are always using their laptops, while watching youtube on their phone with something else on their TV..... and who said kids can't multitask.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"We will never move to tablets and phones only, typing is far faster on a real keyboard. Hate using a phone to send messages or use the forum here as it's so slow. "

This

Nearly always use laptop on here.

Some of the longer posts I do in the forum would take me a week to type on a tablet or phone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use a lap top daily ..but the phone as well ..much easier to store things on a laptop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Technology have evolved within the space of many years.Desktop and laptop is obsolete in most households.

Majority of people use tablets or mobile devices.

When was the last time you sat in front of your desktop or laptop."

I think that's a very sweeping statement that in my opinion is far from being true just yet.

I work from a laptop daily and use a PC daily as well. As others have said phones and tablets are fine for browsing but as soon as you want to do anything like work or gaming they don't cut it.

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By *eedsortingMan
over a year ago

Radley

Laptop every day. Wouldn't be without one. Probably usurped the traditional desktop pc these days but couldn't go to just using tablets and phones. The flexibility and ease of use of the laptop means it can probably never be properly superseded by the smaller devices. Thought I saw an article a week or so back that suggested there was actually a resurgence in laptops and PCs...

As others have said though, it is partly horses for courses. Agree that a tablet or phone is ideal for browsing while sat in front of the telly or on a bus or train or plane etc. But for real work, nope.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use my laptop everyday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use a laptop for work and my desk top for editing photos

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have not used a desktop in years. At home I use my laptop with external monitor. Works perfetc

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By *eith28Man
over a year ago

uxbridge

"We will never move to tablets and phones only, typing is far faster on a real keyboard. Hate using a phone to send messages or use the forum here as it's so slow. "

Who says future input will be typing?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well, at the moment out of all currently available input methods typing is far faster than anything else so It seems doubtful that we'd use anything else.

The only way that I could go faster would be through having a mind control interface to a computer and that would be a hard no as I wouldn't want to be using slack or skype with work colleagues and suddenly get distracted with naughty thoughts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For everyday web browsing, emails and similar apps then it’s the iPad for me every time, it’s so handy and it’s instantly on and ready, no need to boot up etc but there are some things you just can’t do on a tablet like photo editing, booking complex holidays, even a Moonpig card needs to be on a PC/laptop (for me anyway) so basically we need both

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By *ee04Man
over a year ago

Essex

Now this is interesting and I am in both camps.

At home very rarely use laptop even tablet has become obsolete with the Niger screen phones.

However at work we’re we have had introduction of tablets I much prefer desk top and wish we had got laptops instead of tablets which are totally shite for the job.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I used my laptop last night. I use it for some resource-hungry stuff so it will be a while before smaller devices will meet my needs. Luke

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don’t think laptops and desktops will become obsolete anytime soon. I use a desktop pc at home mainly for gaming. Also some things are easier to do on a desktop or laptop pc due to having a physical keyboard or multiple monitors.

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