Will your desktop be extinct in three years?  That is what Google Europe’s big chief, John Herlihy says.  It seems that this is what the war between Apple and Google is all about, with Microsoft throwing one more grenade before they have to call it quits.  Hey you never know, maybe this one will be close enough.  You know they say close doesn’t count except in horseshoes and hand grenades and something else but I always forget (any help here would be appreciated).

So I agree that soon with all the cloud stuff, external storage drives and wireless printers that this is a coming phenomenon.  However mine, as long as it ticks, will be my backup device.  Recently I lost two laptops to hard drive failures and besides my smartphone the desktop was my backup.  Now I have upgraded one of the laptops to a tablet netbook while the other one that is scheduled to arrive today will be another laptop.  Both running Windows 7 Ultimate and the desktop still running XP.  I don’t see that changing.  And if it finally dies (both swappable SATA drives or the IDE that acts as an external for me) then I too will be done with a desktop.  Anyone need some parts?

Take a look HERE for a great piece on the evolution of devices.

Will you sell yours while the selling may still be good?

Or hang on to the death like me?

[Gizmodo]