Reply #13: Let's refute everything you say now that I'm home [View All]

PC sales in this country were up over 10% last year over 2009 in spite of your (and others) claim the business is dead. It's matured. The PC is an appliance. But to corporate America, it's replaced every two years sometimes three, simply because software, requirements, and wear and tear dictate it.


As a computing technology it has not lost it's luster. Try doing anything other than an e-file for your taxes and you'll realize pretty fast that your statement is patently wrong.

Your problem with PC games, you WERE a gamer back in the day. And those crappy pieces of junk you can find on GOG games now for $5.99 were PC gaming in it's infancy. If console gaming (and tablets) are all that, why can't you play World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Warhammer 40,oo0, any of a dozen games hosted by Steam, etc etc etc. The releases may be minuscule but the quality is spectacular. Civilization V was the BEST new release of 2010, Dragon Age notwithstanding. And what about Bioshock, made FOR THE PC??? I guess that didn't count either. And the game that set the standard for benchmarks, Crysis, it ain't nothing like from back in the day.

Tablets will never replace a PC, simply because the computing power available can't be stuffed into a tablet. And if tab;ets/notebooks/netbooks (I have two, one I use at work and one I use on trips and they are STILL selling very well) are supposed to replace PC's as we know them, why are we still selling tens of millions of PC's to consumers AND corporations? t isn't hard to understand.

The most powerful Mac will never be as powerful as a much more powerful PC at half the cost. You're paying for style, period. I can buy a VERY nice Windows PC all in one for HALF the price of even the current hardware comparable Macs:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883147824 and it doesn't have discreet graphics.

As to your last sentence, the difference between you and me is I build, you buy.


Be well my friend.