I went shopping for a computer recently, and discovered that we are on the verge of a sea change in the PC market. Mainstream laptop computers can now be had for prices that rival similar desktops.
It’s been coming for some time. As the laptop market matured and grew, it was only a matter of time before laptops hit price/performance ratios comparable to desktops.
This is huge. It will eliminate a huge portion of the desktop market if people can get the same performance from a laptop for a similar price. After all, you can always plug a keyboard, mouse, and monitor into a laptop and treat it like a desktop — with the option of taking it with you wherever you go.
This does not mean that desktops are going away. Especially when you move into high-end desktops, you often need the space available in the larger case for multiple drives, large amounts of memory, multiple graphics cards, and power-hungry processors. But for your everyday check email/watch YouTube/play solitaire computer, laptops are now hitting price points that will make them the PC of choice.
