The desktop PC -- time to say goodbye?
 

*Source: ComputerWorld (http://www.computerworld.com/action/...c=hm_ts_head)*
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July 19, 2007 (Computerworld) -- When Paul Scheib at Boston's Children's Hospital goes shopping for PCs, his choice is more often a desktop than a notebook.

Despite price drops for notebooks in recent years, desktop computers are still less expensive. It's also easier to lock down ports on stationary desktops to prevent users from downloading sensitive information onto CD-ROMs or USB memory sticks. Of 5,400 PCs in use at the hospital, only about 600 are notebook computers -- and most of those travel only within the halls of the hospital, secured to mobile carts.

"Desktops are the default choice" except when there is a specific need for mobility," says Scheib, director of the information services department and chief information security officer at the hospital.

But Scheib is one of a shrinking breed.

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