The phrase "a desktop system" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a computer system designed for use on a desk, typically consisting of a monitor, keyboard, and CPU.
Example: "The company decided to upgrade all employees to a new desktop system to improve productivity."
Alternatives: "a desktop computer" or "a workstation".
For those who are shopping for a desktop system, "this is actually one of the best times in the last few years to buy a computer," said Stephen Baker, vice president of technology products research at PC Data in Reston, Va.
Menssana Research, a biotechnology company in Fort Lee, N.J., is testing a desktop system called BreathLink for use in rapid identification of active pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases, said Dr. Michael Phillips, the company's chief executive and a professor of clinical medicine at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y.
Although PILL-VR is based on a desktop system, it facilitated a strong sense of presence.
In contrast to a desktop system, which executes a variety of workloads, normally embedded systems execute only one workload, repeatedly.
This paper discusses the design and integration of a desktop system for electrohydrodynamic jet (E-jet) printing.
Nearly 30 tech journalists gathered in The Wynn Monday night, donned cheesy orange jerseys and competed to assemble a desktop system.
The iMac G5 (prices start at $1,299 at www.apple.com/imac) is suspended above the desk on an aluminum stand and manages to fit an entire desktop system into a case two inches thick.
Also, even when a graphical desktop system is available on an HPC system, performance reasons might make it impractical to access a graphical client over a secure shell (SSH) connection, as is often needed.
The minimal install brings up a text interface that takes you through the installation process for a graphical desktop system.
Well, like a powerful desktop system.
Graphical rich clients typically put more requirements on the computer on which they are run, such as requiring a graphical desktop system, which is not always available on HPC systems.
