Graphic design, games, very heavy number crunching and data compilation are just a few examples of what the PC is good at doing. With the PC, you can harness the full strength of some frankly darned powerful hardware to do the job.

When it comes to gaming, some people are hailing the death of PC games and the ultimate takeover of the console. There are a few reasons why this doesn’t make a lick of sense. First, never will the budget conscious gamer shell out a few hundred bucks on a console that will be outstripped by a cheaper video card in 6 months or less. Second, your PC only requires upgrades to keep it alive for gaming, and each of those will tend to cost less than a full console, AND can sustain itself for longer than the life of said console. Third, see how confident console gamers are of Microsoft when they release a new system. The XBox 360 destroyed a valuable consumer base for them. Sure, they might just go buy the next Playstation, but not all of them will.

For heavy data compilation, you really need the horsepower of a PC to get it done in an efficient amount of time. In my business, we are compiling, splitting, cleaning, sorting and batching information all day long, and go through several gigabytes worth of data in a day. No mobile device has yest to come CLOSE to the power necessary for such a task, and the job still requires a huge amount of screen real estate.

Graphic design…well, enough said. You as a Mac guy should know where this point is headed.

The whole point is that the role of the PC is merely being optimized. So yesterday? Eh, maybe as we once knew them, but now PCs are being refined. As that happens, they will get better and better at what they do, being designed for fewer purposes but growing ever more capable in those purposes. As that happens, it will further entrench itself in our world of tech. Sorry, the iPhone just can’t keep up in this arena, and never will.