&gt;<i>It&#x27;s still very popular in the gamer and professional workstation market, and likely will be for a long time. It&#x27;s just hard to cram the processing power that gamers, hard-core developers, CAD and simulation users, etc. need into something as small as a laptop without creating what&#x27;s comically referred to as a &quot;ball burner&quot; or &quot;weenie roaster.&quot;</i><p>Gaming is a niche market mostly for younger ages (people with &quot;game rigs&quot; drops rapidly after a certain age) and most hard-core developers use laptops -- the laptops you see in each and every dev conference are their main boxes, with or without external monitors.<p>As for CAD and simulation that&#x27;s too niche to even mention. Of course some people will always have a need for a more powerful form factor. But if CAD users are part of the counter-argument for &quot;it&#x27;s not dying&quot;, then it very much is.