Is "the PC Market is diminishing to the the enthusiast class mostly."?

[meowwentthedino]

So I was looking into DDR-4 memory and stumbled upon this http://wccftech.com/samsung-launch-ddr4-32-gb-ram-memory-sticks/ forum post, reading some of the comments

like: Blue Gum • 9 months ago
"the PC Market is diminishing to the the enthusiast class mostly."
What do you mean by this? because the sales of gaming hardware is on the rise.

and I am thinking is this happening is the general consumer market for computer making (not like go into a shop and buy a windows8 netbook), what do you guys think, I do see quite a few reviewers and such on YT only doing high end stuff or enthusiast grade products.

- Dave

 

[Fringie]

This is a big topic which is why I'm not really going to justify what I'm saying.

Laptops, nucs, tablets, phones are taking away from the tasks that normally a PC would. I'm sure this will diminish the PC sales over-time but x technology can only get so good. And unless we move onto another technology (like quantum processors?) I believe hardware streaming will be a thing as soon as the internet infrastructure is good enough.

So hardware streaming is basically a VPS that connects to the users client. x value of resources is allocated to the user which can only requires a simple client. I remember accessing servers with my old iPhone 3G via RDP. It was laggy as shit (this was years ago though) but phones aren't optimized for connections of this type. But my point is even today, it's completely possible assuming you don't mind the lag.

Essentially imagine a monitor with a rasberry pi attached to it. I'm sure 2x the power of current rasberry pi is easily obtainable with the same price point by time the internet infrastructure is in a good enough state to do what I described.

That's what I believe will happen but in a long time. Everyday PCs aren't going anywhere for a long time though. I'm not so sure about gaming PC's though but even then it'd take like 10 years before it became like 1/100 people who PC gamed used a PC.

 

[Wraith]

PCs for the most part will be going nowhere, as for mainly enthusiast only hardware.. What!?! If that is the case, which it isn't, products that come from companies like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus and Lenovo are about to get very very expensive, there will always be enthusiast hardware it's just the better versions of the lower end stuff, which is always available along side.

 

[Dark NighT]

The standard prebuild systems that you can find in every shop are taking a hit on sales, but the rest of the market is just fine.

 

[vorticalbox]

if you watched google IO then they are actually pushing chrome OS into the business sector, unified google drive between all users and i believe it was like $10 per user for unlimited space.

Then you get all the bonus of the drive collaboration, setting access rights, access to work files from any browser on any device from anywhere. that could push the use of PC away for "average" users

Also if you look at the sale of GPU's for example the bulk of their sales is actually the low end / mid cards and not the high end.

so long as there is that market then the PC should be ok.