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Smartphones to replace computers soon

SaltyDawg said:
Correct. You obviously didn't watch the video, lol.
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Did you? With the Atrix hooked up to the laptop docking station, he's using a laptop in every single second of that part of the tutorial. With it hooked up to the HD docking station, it required the use of a free standing monitor.

Either way, the "smart"phone needed more than just a docking station or some cords to be fully functioning. Either way, you still need a laptop (if hooking it up to the laptop docking station) or a free standing monitor and keyboard if hooked up to the HD docking station, thus making it either far from mobile or a pain in the *** to use it anywhere you want.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Did you? With the Atrix hooked up to the laptop docking station, he's using a laptop in every single second of that part of the tutorial. With it hooked up to the HD docking station, it required the use of a free standing monitor.

Either way, the "smart"phone needed more than just a docking station or some cords to be fully functioning. Either way, you still need a laptop (if hooking it up to the laptop docking station) or a free standing monitor and keyboard if hooked up to the HD docking station, thus making it either far from mobile or a pain in the *** to use it anywhere you want.
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Watch it again. There is no laptop at any point in that video. What you apparently thought was a laptop is actually the dock.

So, again, why would anyone buy a laptop if they already owned that Atrix?

Gotta love it when people argue things they obviously know nothing about...

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I would buy a laptop because I like a screen bigger than 5 inches.

The argument here is semantics. What you see as a "dock" so it has a bigger screen as a laptop, others see as, well, a laptop.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Watch it again. There is no laptop at any point in that video. What you apparently thought was a laptop is actually the dock.

So, again, why would anyone buy a laptop if they already owned that Atrix?

Gotta love it when people argue things they obviously know nothing about...

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Who's cell phone service do I need to buy the Atrix?
 
LogGrad98 said:
I would buy a laptop because I like a screen bigger than 5 inches.

The argument here is semantics. What you see as a "dock" so it has a bigger screen as a laptop, others see as, well, a laptop.
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I was going to point this out but it was obvious Salty would just say, "It's not a laptop, it's a docking station. Look at what it's called." But yeah, it's a ****ing laptop.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
I was going to point this out but it was obvious Salty would just say, "It's not a laptop, it's a docking station. Look at what it's called." But yeah, it's a ****ing laptop.
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If it's a laptop then it should work without the phone, right?


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Yeah. Without the smartphone, the docking station is just a hunk of glass and plastic. I mean the phone does the computing right? Hence, Smartphones will replace computers soon. Or at least exist as a formidable alternative.

I mean hell, my overclocked phone has more GHz in it's processor than the desktop I used up until 2009.

Even though I avoid most apps like the plague, I'm tempted to download tapatalk and post from my Captivate simply out of spite.
 
balli said:
Yeah. Without the smartphone, the docking station is just a hunk of glass and plastic. I mean the phone does the computing right? Hence, Smartphones will replace computers soon. Or at least exist as a formidable alternative.

I mean hell, my overclocked phone has more GHz in it's processor than the desktop I used up until 2009.

Even though I avoid most apps like the plague, I'm tempted to download tapatalk and post from my Captivate simply out of spite.
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If you start using tapatalk you'll never want to use the phone browser for message boards again.


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I am still curious as to what "soon" means. 400 million PCs sold worldwide in 2010 is not going away anytime in the next few years and if it did within just 2 or 3 years or so it would be an unprecedented product death in the history of technology back to the industrial revolution. Even the payphone is not completely dead, and it's death throes have been going on for maybe 15 years now.

Sorry for the edit, but here is some data:

https://itmanagement.earthweb.com/m...ales-Soaring-Amid-Wider-PC-Growth-Gartner.htm

Gartner projects worldwide PC shipments will reach 376.6 million units in 2010, a 22-percent increase from the 308.3 million units shipped in 2009. Total spending is expected to reach $245.4 billion in 2010, up 12 percent from 2009. The home PC market is projected to grow 29.5 percent this year, while professional PC sales will rise 13.1 percent.
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Gartner has already given a positive report on server sales in the first quarter, and it found that mobile PC sales are also doing well so far this year. Worldwide mobile PC shipments totaled 49.4 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 43.4 percent increase from the first quarter of 2009. That's the single highest year-over-year growth percentage in eight years, according to Gartner.

But it's not entirely a fair comparison, as Q1 2009 was the depths of the recession and sales fell off a cliff. Several vendors, including Intel, AMD, Nvidia and Dell have all noted massive year-over-year gains, but it's because they are coming off such terrible lows from 2009.
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Not sure you will see 30% growth year over year drop to nothing anytime "soon".

So what exactly is "soon"?
 
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