Ok so as some of you heard from me for several months alerady, this month I am supposed to buy a new desktop computer. No I'm not gonna build it myself. I am illiterate about that stuff and with Canada shipping costs, it will cost me more to build one myself, especially that stores includes Windows 7 for free with their prebuilt systems.

So for the past year, I've been looking flyers and stores to see how powerful and expensive are the computer they have on sale most of the time. However, I've been noticing something scary: as time goes by, flyers started showing more and more laptops and barely anymore desktop PCs. Only one year ago, there were 2 pages of desktop PCs in them, then around Christmas time, only two or three per flyers. Today, none at all! During that time, I also went to stores to see computer prices and same thing, despite to a lesser extent, was happening. At Staples, they only had 3 desktop PCs for sale the last time I checked. Walmart had none anymore. The rest were expensive and less powerful laptops. Zellers no longer sells computers since at least 2 years so that one is to forget and The Source by Circuit City only had two desktop PCs the last time I checked and about 10 laptops. The only exception was Future Shop (AKA Best Buy stores that has yet to be renamed): they are the only store that still sells a decent amount of desktop computers, and even then, they had some empty shelves the last time I checked.

Since the desktop computers currently for sale would fit my needs pretty well, I shouldn't have to worry about if I'm gonna be able to locally buy a computer instead of having to buy parts online and get charged incredibly high for shipping. But this is still something that made me wonder: Are desktop PCs dissapearing for good?

Its true that Desktop PC's are becoming less common, but I think it will take a fair ammount of time for them to disapear completely, if they do at all.  Desktops will always be faster than laptops just because you have more space to work with, easier cooling, ect...  Only the future will tell though, I'm rooting for them to stay around ^^

It makes me wonder if there's going to be a point where it will be plain impossible to make anything smaller...that is, I wonder if, 100-200 years from now, if you want 10,000 TB Hard Drive, 100 GB RAM and a 50 GHz processor, you will have to get a computer the size of a desk

It makes me wonder if there's going to be a point where it will be plain impossible to make anything smaller...that is, I wonder if, 100-200 years from now, if you want 10,000 TB Hard Drive, 100 GB RAM and a 50 GHz processor, you will have to get a computer the size of a desk

100-200 years from now you won't need a 10 PB hard disk drive or 100 Gigs of RAM or a 50 GHz CPU. You'll be able to download your porn directly to your brain

On a more serious note, I agree with art_of_camelot. Desktops and computers in general will keep evolving over the years. Nothing will disappear, they'll just take on new forms.

Desktop are turning less common.
And the actual desktops sold are for people who need powerful computer and build from parts or people looking for cheaper computers and can't afford laptops.

I think desktops for home use will not disappear easily unless laptops can be as powerful as desktops without cooling problems.
But in long term, I think "fixed" computers will be servers, supercomputers, kiosk and working computers.

Finally got my new comp!

At least the max fps at max settings in Unreal Tournament 2004 will be a huge improvement from the 15-20 at medium settings I got on my old comp and I can play Halo CE again

As for what I got, it's an Intel Core i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80 GHz with 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, 1 terabyte harddrive and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 graphic card with 1.5 GB video memory. I guess I should be fine for a while

dam that friggin nice  i wish i had a comp like that X.x

im stuck with a 897mhz 512 ram no graphics card(dell integrated graphics controller) as my desktop   great to here though i hope you enjoy it

That is a really nice PC. Congrats!