Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ...
by wfjackson on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @10:30PM
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Lenovo is doing good and getting better.
http://www.cnet.com/news/lenovo-earnings-soar-on-solid-pc-sm...
Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ...
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday September 25, 2014 @01:21AM
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Lenovo sells more than just consumer PCs.
Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ...
by rurounijones on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @10:25PM
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Agreed, the last great upgrade was the SSD. After that, for people using their laptops as non-intensive consumer devices, what else do they need?
Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ...
by chx on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @10:44PM
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Indeed. If you have a late 2008 all Intel laptop with a Penryn CPU and an X25-M SSD (fiendishly expensive at that time) to this day, six years later, it's hard to see what's the point of getting another laptop.
For a few more years, the decreasing costs of SSDs were giving incentive but yes, once you have that, what incentive remains? The high resolution screen is still more trouble than advantage.
I was purchasing newer and newer ThinkPads for a few more years, until I could put 16GB (for a sw developer, having lots of RAM is helpful) in a 14" model, then stopped at the T420 in 2011 and that's the end of laptops for me for the foreseeable future.
Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ...
by Alphasite_ on Thursday September 25, 2014 @03:27AM
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The substantial improvements in battery? Better screens (brighter, better fov, more resolution 2008 laptops had atrocious screens)? More portable designs? USB3? Better trackpads and keyboards? More durable designs?
The iPad/Tablet market gets almost all the credit for this decline in the media but while I'm sure that's part of it I personally think the fact that we hit a point around 2010 where desktops and laptops were just plain good enough (truly good enough, not 640k good enough) for almost everything people normally do was as much or more of a factor than tablets. Short of having a machine die on you there are precious few reasons to run out and buy a new system anymore.
I'm a software developer, a hobby photographer who shoots in RAW and a gamer and even I haven't bought a new desktop or laptop in 4 years (and I used to be someone who would build an entirely new desktop system yearly with major upgrades 6 months in to boost it up).