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desktop

[desk-top] / ˈdɛskˌtɒp /
NOUN
desktop computer
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Dots aren’t even OpenAI’s first cute little things: It launched an optional “pet” for its desktop app last spring.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Apple unveiled two desktop computers in September, the Mac mini and Mac Studio, which it touted as powerful new options capable of processing AI software locally.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

He pointed to laptop production being slower than usual and demand for desktop computers looking “particularly weak.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Apple is releasing new models of its AI-friendly desktop machines—the Mac Mini and Studio—after the previous generations became sleeper hits, and vanished from shelves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

I dug the little yellow box of worry dolls out of my bag and dumped them onto the desktop.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

When consumers moved from laptops and desktops to smartphones about 15 years ago, it produced a crisis in Silicon Valley.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

RTX Spark-powered laptops and desktops, made by the likes of Dell and Lenovo, will be available this autumn, Nvidia said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Comet is limited to desktops for now, though Perplexity Chief Executive Aravind Srinivas told me a mobile app will be ready in less than two months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Once students started using desktops from prison classrooms, he pre-loaded academic articles onto thumb drives they could explore offline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025

The other two interviewers had asked a bunch of questions about how he’d handle various repairs of the company’s numberless desktops.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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