If you thought smartphones and pocket PCs are driving desktops to oblivion, you are wrong
If you thought smartphones and pocket PCs areu00a0 driving desktops to oblivion, you are wrong
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Touch me! Hewlett Packard's TouchSmart desktop |
As laptops started selling by the millions, the desktop became an ignored child. But that was yesterday. The friendly personal computer that rescues you every time your notebook crashes, is living its second innings in style, thanks to powerful multimedia PCs and evolved, touch-screen avatars.
"Home PCs were earlier perceived as dull, boring and cumbersome, but now, they come with eye-friendly TFT screens, one-touch interfaces and complete home entertainment tools," says Chandrahas Panigrahi, country category head consumer desktops, HP India. The brand's sleek new TouchSmart PC, priced at Rs 87, 990, boasts of touchscreen operation, TV viewing facility and inbuilt speakers, and weighs less than five kilos.u00a0u00a0
Everyone's at itOther manufacturers aren't neglecting the tabletop processor, either. Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop has proved a worthy replacement for Windows Vista led systems, Sony came up with its Vaio L and VGC series of desktops and Apple's iMac continues to be an ever favourite both among pros and families.
The mightiest oneIf you think fancy pocket PCs would win the power game hands down in a few months, let us fill you in on the most powerful desktop in the world the Cray CX1. The machine can run up to 512GB (that's GB, not MB) of memory and store up to four terabytes (4,000 GB) of data. The top model in the range, which costs around $60,000, incorporates 16 different processors. And you thought the good ol' PC was on its way out?
