@commodorejohn
What makes you a better predictor of the future than current sales figures? You are here on a board asking about a 20 year old computer that has around 5,000 users scattered across 4 camps, how do your tastes in anyway reflect the tastes of the general population?
It easy to fantasise the tablet away, I was in an Amiga user group meeting on the day Windows 95 premiered, when the presenter spent half his talk fantasising Windows 95 away. That worked well.
Early PC users looked down their noses at this childish rodent thing called a "mouse." Who in the world would ever use one of those?