The percentage of sales people that recommend Samsung HDTVs.
Salespeople are also becoming less likely to recommend LCD sets over plasma sets, which goes against the industry trend.
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Me, for one. There are four of us in our family who need to use the computer, and one of them is my son who does a lot of gaming and my daughter who watches a lot of Netflix Watch Instantly. When we needed to upgrade from our old desktop just a few months ago, I did not even consider a laptop, but went straight for a Core i7 with a ton of RAM and a nice big screen. We also watch movies on it as a second option. A laptop for our family computer just makes no sense.
I am getting into video editing with HD home video files and the extra horsepower is nice there as well. My wife has a work laptop but when she brings it home, she still prefers working on the desktop and just sharing it over to the laptop through the wireless network. I have an iPod Touch which allows me what little access to the internet I need when elsewhere in the house.
Also, I share video files with my LG BD390 from the computer over the network. The extra horsepower also helps with the server side workload, I would bet.
Lastly, I have about 1500 GB worth of movies, music and audiobooks, and these are on external drives attached to the computer, so without some type of network attached storage, keeping the computer in one place with access to those drives is optimal.
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