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The traditional desktops are a dying breed in the PC world. People are increasingly mobile, lacking space, and lets be honest…. The traditional looking desktops is oversized, clunky, and lacks any sex appeal.
Companies increasingly shifting to building slim pcs, all-in-ones, and other desktop based computers that are more space conscious. I have noticed that businesses and educations systems are using these form factors more often, but consumers aren’t. Why is that?
From my point of view a large part of the answer is simple. Most desktop pcs are ugly, even in small form factor. Instead of beige, they’re now typically black, and most of them lack no easy path of upgradeability in the future, limiting enthusiasts on ability to put in bigger parts, and limiting non-enthusiasts in an easy way to upgrade the essentials.
This seems like complete nonsense to me. Companies put a lot of time, research and brains into developing these stunning mobiles. They’re powerful, attractive, and are coming down in price. I firmly believe if we could make a SFF factor computer that was sexy, powerful, inexpensive and didn’t cut corners on quality parts, that the desktop would revive.
Maybe I am just holding on to a dream here, but why kill something through lack of effort that could still continue to drive innovation in the PC world?