Grim forecast for computer, tablet sales takes a turn for the worse

[Manindra]

How many members use desktops, tabs or smart phones to post their posts??

Mostly Laptop sometime from smartphone.

 

[thesolar65]

@Rain Man and @Manindra

I use only Desktop or Laptop, as I do not have a tab. Phone do not have internet package, but works on wifi when at home, but do not find it comfortable to post.

 

[Manindra]

@Rain Man and @Manindra

I use only Desktop or Laptop, as I do not have a tab. Phone do not have internet package, but works on wifi when at home, but do not find it comfortable to post.

You can use BSNL 3G prepaid services.
Its only Rs. 68 for 1 GB with 5 days validity (cheaper than broadband connection)

 

[dray]

You can use BSNL 3G prepaid services.
Its only Rs. 68 for 1 GB with 5 days validity (cheaper than broadband connection)

@thesolar65 is a rich man, cost is not a concern for him!

 

[Manindra]

@thesolar65 is a rich man, cost is not a concern for him!

But we are poor Bhartis

 

[macnurv]

A tablet is nothing but a over-sized smartphone, worse without voice calling facility, it wasn't supposed to have a market to begin with.

True, actually tablets seems redundant. By the way there were several tablets that allowed calling feature, people looked to stupid making calls using them.

Small upgrades are sufficient for a PC, even for a laptop. I just added another RAM stick and a low-end Crucial SATA 120GB SSD as C drive on my 2009 PC, and it is again running like a tiger.

A SSD does makes some difference when it comes to boot time with increase in read and write speeds. But overall processing speeds are not affected, a 9 year old processor won't do any wonders. Furthermore the capability of your SSD's will also be affected since, there will be some serious bottle neck occurring in the system because of the PCIe lanes etc which directly links to the processor again. A DDR3 ram over 8 GB doesn't make much of a difference, to me that is the sweet spot for all my needs.With DDR-4, yes things are bound to get more interesting.
SSD is not a magic pill.

Raspberry Pi is a good development though, I think newer versions of it plugged into a TV will replace desktops in most homes for daily use.

I only used it once as an experiment but it does hold lot potential. I use a Intel NUC running Kodi for my streaming needs, so never really looked in pi implementation as an alternate.

If the built quality is not too poor, or you haven't plucked out the keyboard buttons, then a RAM upgrade and a SSD for C drive will pleasently surprise you...for general use of course, gamers have different needs.

SSD's are not cheap, I built a gaming system with a dual purpose, Windows for my gaming needs and a hackintosh for my work. Even than I have a 3TB HDD for the storage needs. Ram upgrade helps but not entirely neither does booting from an SSD.

 

[dray]

True, actually tablets seems redundant. By the way there were several tablets that allowed calling feature, people looked to stupid making calls using them.

A SSD does makes some difference when it comes to boot time with increase in read and write speeds. But overall processing speeds are not affected, a 9 year old processor won't do any wonders. Furthermore the capability of your SSD's will also be affected since, there will be some serious bottle neck occurring in the system because of the PCIe lanes etc which directly links to the processor again. A DDR3 ram over 8 GB doesn't make much of a difference, to me that is the sweet spot for all my needs.With DDR-4, yes things are bound to get more interesting.
SSD is not a magic pill.

I only used it once as an experiment but it does hold lot potential. I use a Intel NUC running Kodi for my streaming needs, so never really looked in pi implementation as an alternate.

SSD's are not cheap, I built a gaming system with a dual purpose, Windows for my gaming needs and a hackintosh for my work. Even than I have a 3TB HDD for the storage needs. Ram upgrade helps but not entirely neither does booting from an SSD.

I was not talking about the gamers or professionals doing heavy tasks who need maximum processing power, their needs are different. What average users face with their old computers is different, the need for RAM increases with every upgradation of OS, and hard disks slow down over the years, average users using word, excel, powerpoint, a couple of internet browsers, a media player, and maybe an email client will barely use the full processing power of even a P-IV processor. I have seen in many offices clerical work is being done just fine on 10 year old desktops, only the RAM has been increased from 256-512 mb to 2 gb DDR-I (that's the maximum old motherboards support). 5-6 years old machines on 2 gb DDR-II RAM can improve greatly with an additional 2 gb RAM, average users don't really need more than 4 gb.

For SSD, the performance improvement is not only limited to boot time and program launch, many applications, especially the internet browsers use page file heavily to store downloaded websites, you might see a delay in displaying images on downloaded pages when you switch between many opened tabs in your browser, that's because of the delay in transfer of saved page files from the slower HDD (in old & ordinary computers of course), that delay doesn't happen with a SSD. Some people say that page file reduces the life of the drive, but SSDs have much longer life compared to a standard HDD, they are likely to outlive the computer, maybe the technology itself.
Yes, even the cheapest SSDs are much more costlier compared to a HDD in terms of cost per GB, the solution is a smaller SSD for the primary drive or C drive, and a HDD for storage, the old HDD itself can be used as storage. And a SATA SSD is good enough for most people, PCIe SSD would be an unnecessary overkill.

Small upgrades on old computers can take care of the increasing needs for average users, that's why people are buying fewer new computers.