Since almost everyone USES a computer in the office or at school, the need for the traditional desktop model at home is vanishing.

无论在办公室还是学校，几乎人手一台电脑，所以人们对家用台式机的需求正逐渐消失。

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It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices.

它使得桌面计算机上使用的应用程序模型在设备上也能使用。

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When working with small documents on a desktop this is not a problem, but in other configurations, like servers, the inherent inefficiencies of the object model APIs are not acceptable.

在桌面上处理小型文档这可能不是大问题，但是在其他环境中，比如服务器上，对象模型固有的低效率是不可接受的。

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However, it was painful for DELL to strip back the fixed costs associated with its desktop operating model that once gave it strength.

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Mobile screens are too small, no one has really come up with a viable (or at least as productive as desktop) advertising model here.

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More specifically, advertisers and brands are already realizing that simply transferring the creative model from desktop, such as banner ads, does not work on mobile.

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