The second
opening.

The last time the desktop was up for grabs, it shipped a Mac.
1984  MACINTOSH · THE GUI OPENED IT
2026  KORA · INTELLIGENCE OPENS IT AGAIN
Work · Create · Play
A creator at a KORA desktop workstation
02
The signal · X · July 20, 2026
“The desktop is
the anchor.”
“In an agentic world, the laptop/desktop is pulling away from every other device by a margin.”
Ben Bajarin CEO & Principal Analyst, Creative Strategies

A creator at an AI-native desktop workstation
04
The native citizen

Built for the AI-native prosumer

350M
AI-native prosumers by 2033 — ≈29% CAGR from 40–80M today (est.)
300–400M (EST.) 40–80M 90–140M 150–250M 20262028 20302033

They pay for intelligence, run models on their own silicon, and buy the hardware to do it. No incumbent OS is built for them — and the cohort runs ≈6× by 2033.