Doubtful. A real PC for what.. surfing on the net, checking your facebook status and twittering? You need serious CPU for that eh? Anything you want to do, you can basically do in a browser. Serious PC's are still out there, but the trending market of rising sales has not been on serious PC power its been on cheap, affordable luxury and thats come in the form of netbook.
Who says that they don't already have a "real" PC? From what I've seen (anecdotal), many buyers are buying these netbooks explicitly as secondary machines because of the price-point/portability.
Uh, all the specs I've seen for those netbooks are basically "real PCs" from just a few years ago. Fuck the treadmill of hardware upgrades.
No. Netbook sales have been growing for a couple years and they're like 10% of all portable computer sales.
So folks are buying serious desktops for gaming then? Screw that 360 or ps3 experience? Or maybe they've been buying serious PCs for all those newly unemployed?
I dont know if you are trying to be comical or not, but the experience on 360 or ps3 is miserable when compared to most
PC gaming, especially if you game consistently and prefer aiming over auto targeting. Very distinct from the Wii, which fits well and has its own niche.
So yes, most people who buy powerhouse computers do it either becuase they think they need to, or they really do need to to play the newest games.
I agree. I'd also add that the game industry is never given enough credit for the PC revolution. I remember back in the 80s when people started buying PCs and Apples (and others)... almost everyone I ever met said they bought them for word processing or spreadsheets, but what they actually did was play Wizardry and Castle Wolfenstein.
Probably not. Most computer users today don't need anywhere near the capabilities of even a low-end PC, whether it runs Windows or OSX.
Except for the tiny screens. I agree that CPU power is not much of an issue, but it doesn't seem like fun to cope with the tiny screens for everything.