Are Gadgets killing PCs?

terryc wrote

You never ever could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

Dr Google? :-)

:-)

Cheers Don...

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So 100:6 says you're wrong. Laptops are basically sealed gadgets tha you plug doodles into. I suppose that one day you will learn to read.

such as internet TVs are having a massive

If you mean conventional desktop PCs then of course it is. Already a significant proportion of (most?) users who need a computer in more than one location have a single laptop that they use wherever they are. It seems likely that fairly soon a mobile phone will have the storage and processing grunt commonly required. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone so they only need the ability to connect to the appropriate servers and HIDs wherever they happen to be. The Motorola Atrix is not there yet but I think it shows what is coming .

terryc wrote

popular, that is a closed box,

Everyone can see of themselves that you are lying, as always.

ALL that shows is what those that use that store choose to buy.

So are the PCs they flog as well, f****it.

You'll never manage to work out how to bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

added into them.

Gordon Levi wrote

That graph lumps desktops and laptops and notebooks together, stupid.

Most arent actually stupid enough to cart it around all the time.

But not the screen or keyboard that is required for the most basic stuff.

They also need a decent screen and keyboard if they do more than a few texts.

I hardly ever text from the mobile itself, its much more convenient to use a real keyboard.

You're wrong, as always.

Most will continue to do it the other way, a real PC of some sort for all except the much more trivial stuff they do on their phone.

There are APP's for Tablets that compare prices from all Supermarkets also tell you ingredients, calories etc. Most now have to go shopping in more than one supermarket why not use your tablet if you have one.

Pretzl wrote

And plenty who have enough cash to do things in the most convenient way too.

And its unlikely to have been bought for just that, so she doesnt actually spend anything for the convenience.

While I dont use a tablet for that, I do have various lists in a decent smartphone instead.

I've never dropped mine.

as I did.

Much less in fact, particularly if you use a decent app that tells you the location etc too.

Her approach does a MUCH better job.

And I keep track of the best price I have ever paid for stuff that I buy much of too.

Or an even more convenient smartphone.

gadgets,

Sounds like a typical yuppie showing off her possessions.

smartphone instead.

as I did.

location etc too.

My missus does the shopping, she doesn't need to be told where the stuff is located, after about the fourth week of moving here, she had that down pat.

How exactly, it takes just as much effort to type a list into a tablet or smartphone as it does to write it onto a piece of paper. If there is stuff that you buy every week and you memory is so bad that you can't remember it, you just print a standing list each week and add any extras by hand.

of too.

Not sure exactly what that does for you other than being able to winge about how much things have gone up.

bag.

Shrug, another roddles utter capitualtion.

Where do you shop? Around here it is musical shelves.

The local Woolies did a reconfiguration a year or so back, but before and after it was and is completely stable.

keithr wrote

gadgets, such as internet TVs are having a

Or she got it for various reasons and was trying it out in that situation.

Or the laptop either.

located, after about the fourth week of

Its different if you use various supermarkets much, particularly when they have rearranged everything as they do periodically.

Wrong when you have automated it properly.

can't remember it,

Thats not what is on the list, stupid.

Whats on the list is what I keep a decent stock of for convenience and which I have noticed has got low.

I bet his list isnt anything like that. Hers either.

of too.

how much things have gone up.

I basically only buy stuff at close to the best price I have ever seen and keep decent stocks of everything I use much so I dont have to shop very often at all.

That does save a substantial amount of money, particularly with the more expensive stuff like a 5KG block of fillet steak uncut, the Lendards specials, fruit and veg.

Some stuff like the limes I make marmalade out of because I cant buy anything like as good marmalade as I can make, can vary anything from $3/KG to $20

terryc wrote

bag.

You never ever could bullshit and lie your way out of a wet paper bag.

gadgets,

smartphone instead.

as I did.

location etc too.

of too.

Yes the apps even tell you where you left your car (handy over Xmas)

I reckon the pads are useful enough for that sort of thing and she would likely or not have it anyway as a phone. I can't see any portable tablet that you could comfortably sit at and knock out a few drawings or lay out some documents. Until that happens most using cad and word processing will keep the desktops IMHO.

Rheilly P

That's what the cameras are for when you find something they hide it, if you find it again it goes off the shelf completely. I don't bother now if Woolworth's hide it, it goes on my Aldi list. It's actually a scam where suppliers are blackmailed into the placement of goods in stores and on shelves. Notice everything you want going to bottom shelf at the back. Link below is why

Pretzl wrote

Nothing I buy there ever is.

Just another utterly mindless conspiracy theory.

I always bought the beans and ground it myself when I still bothered with coffee.

I only use the specials prices, never pay full price for meat.

I dont have to do that.

LIke hell its cheaper than mine. The main problem with the price is the excise duty on commercial beer that you dont pay with home brewed beer.

That is a bare faced lie, proven by their publicly available figures.

Because they have done better than Coles until they imported some poms.