Since converting to the Mac platform I have felt no need to purchase anything from PC World so its very rare im in the store. My friend Ste had just bought a camera from Currys so we decided to pop in to PC World for ‘old time sake’ and to see if the PC landscape had changed much since our departure.
After about 5 minutes in the store one of the shopping assistants came over and asked us if we needed any assistance, we politely declined explaining we were Mac users and we just browsing out of interest. The conversation that followed with the employee was one i’d never have expected. He suddenly lit up and became very enthusiastic at the mention of Macs, he explained that he wished he was a mac user but couldn’t afford one at the moment. He went on to tell us how he wouldn’t recommend one product from the store that he was an employee of.
“I would not recomend one product from here, I really wouldn’t, they’re cheap rubbish”
“Macs are definitely the way forwards, they’ll soon take over, PCs are on the decline”
This was reassuring to hear because I am a bit of a Mac snob and often get carried away evangelising the Apple life style. To have a PC World employee do it for me was a good feeling, I didn’t feel like a snob anymore, I felt like I was speaking gospel!
Although PCs aren’t going to go away anytime soon this did feel like one more nail in the coffin for the PC market.
It was interesting to see how the PC market had changed, everything had a cheapness to it. There didn’t seem to be any quality computers in the store anymore, just low end budget everything. The laptop section is now dominated by low-cost net-books sporting low grade plastic shells that feel like something made entirely from recycled kinder egg toys. The PCs are mostly £499 and below. What happened to the £1000 machines that were there 3 years ago?
It seems like the store has a different demographic than before. I didn’t spot one good gaming machine in the whole store, that was unheard of 3 years ago.
Looks like the dedicated PC gamers that want quality machines are a niche market now that will have to resort to the DIY game if they want a decent gaming rig.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have the facility for users to upload personal pictures for the world to see. Common pictures are ‘pouts’ and selfpics. I have no problems with this but there is one type of pic found on these sites that I loathe. The ‘sticky out tongue’ pics! and its always the girls that do it. I do not know what would posses a girl to do this as it is possibly the most unattractive pose ever created.
