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CrunchGear has a post on how desktops could be dead in three years, and the thought of seeing desktops fading away is scary.  Why I think desktops would stay around for much much longer?  Unless the laptops could do away with the overheated problem as well as the desktops could and could be as strong as the desktops, I have no reason to believe that the desktops could be a dying technology.  You could make the argument that people nowadays spend more times on smart phones than on desktops, hooking up into the cloud computing networks as most smart phones do, and some smart phones carry the whistles and bells that could be found on the desktops, but in reality the same argument could be argue for the smart phones is not that different from the argument we could argue for the laptops.  Laptops haven’t replaced the desktops for years, why the smart phones would be the desktops’ killers?  I doubt so very much.  Unless the smart phones could be as strong as the desktops and stronger than the laptops, I see there is no way that the smart phones could do away the desktops — as of now these hardware are not the same and not competing against one and another.  When I say strong, it means I talk about the horsepower behind a machine, the capabilities a machine could provide.

When come to business, I couldn’t see how the desktops would be dead as many business applications had been working so well with the desktops that may stick around for a lot longer.  IE6, are we talking about you? In addition, the cloud computing is not 100% stable and cost savings.  You could take my word on the cost savings as a grain of salt, because the costs are not constant and could always change depend on the market’s demand and various factors that I don’t need to bother with in this article. Why?  Cloud computing although is not a new technology, but recently many people and companies have implemented cloud computing through either private networks or public networks, but I had read some news that were mentioned about various hiccups that these recent cloud computing networks have experienced (security issues, etc…).  Yes, cloud computing is just like any other computing, because it’s computing — which means it could go bad just like any other computing environment.  Sure, you could argue that cloud computing is more stable since its network layout has a better network-redundancy, but I could only see that if only if you get the cloud computing right, then you could say cloud computing works, but we also have other known working technologies such as load balancing, clustering, and so on that have been around for years and have been known for working superbly; I could say cloud computing is just another competitive technology in which it’s competing against the others that I had mentioned.  It’s just that the cloud computing is the thing that we all fixate on for now.

Why am I talking about cloud computing and related technologies although I’m trying to make the argument about “long live the desktops?”  It is because some people tend to have the idea that everyone would be better off when one is hooking into a cloud computing network, do away one’s desktops to go for a thin-client type of desktops, but aren’t we all already hooking up to the Internet and yet our desktops still cheerfully existed?  To me, the Internet is just another cloud computing environment but a much more encompassing one, and yet the Internet is a very dangerous place when it comes to security measures.  There is a saying, and my way of wording the phrase could be off, but here it goes, unless you have buried your computer how many feet under the ground without any wireless activity and any Ethernet connection (Internet connection), then that is the only way you could be safe from the computer viruses, computer worms, and all other known dangerous security holes due to the vulnerabilities from software and operating systems.

To say more of the same… For cloud computing and smart phones, you could always be online; I doubt that anyone could argue that the cloud computing is going to be 100% secured, and 100% online is a dangerous thing.  At least I know that when a desktop user intimately knows about the computer security, he or she could safeguard about his or her computing security matters better than cloud computing users such as smart phone users.  It’s just because that you have more controlled over your desktops than you have over your smart phones since it’s you who’s calling the shots for what could be install on your desktops.  It’s not so with the cloud computing.  Cloud computing is an environment where one’s data be among many, and when a computer virus has gone wild, it could be that everyone who is hooking into the same cloud computing network could find their data expose to an unknown evil entity.

I could go on and say that maybe one day, cloud computing could solve all security problems and would be the safest computing environment among all, unfortunately it’s only a fantasy for now.  In regard to computing security, I couldn’t see how desktops at least in security measures could be outdone by the thin-clients that are connected to the cloud computing networks.  The argument about one only needs smart phone is ridiculous, because I still love how powerful a desktop could be, and I doubt that there is a smart phone in the current market could be as powerful as an average desktop.  Plus, smart phones have small screen sizes that make the viewing of videos not nearly as pleasurable as how you would view a video on a regular monitor.  Maybe when one day smart phones could just send the data over to any nearby HD monitor regardless of screen sizes, but until then I still prefer a desktop over a smart phone whenever I’m not on the go.  I’m not straying off the main point at all when I talk about viewing videos on a smart phone and a desktop comparison, because we are talking about how desktops could be dead due to smart phones and other various technologies.

Even more…  As of now, I doubt that the cloud computing networks could offer all the software that the various desktops have been carried, and until then I couldn’t see how the smart phones that are depending on the cloud computing networks could carry as many whistles and bells as the desktops.  In conclusion, I have to say I doubt the desktops would be dead.