They're killing the PC...

[Amiga_Nut]

This happens all the time, first with laptops, then PDAs, then Netbooks and now it's tablet devices on Android/iOS.

Well there is a simple fact, many computing applications need lots of raw CPU grunt and desktop PCs will always provide more of that per dollar/euro than anything else you can create. Yes Windows is incredibly sh1t BUT it has fueled the CPU advances because it is so %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! (and cheap terrabyte drives and cheap memory).

Add to that fact that some things you can't or won't do on a tablet and you have the simple fact a computer on your desk or a powerful laptop is going nowhere.

Cloud based computing is just another tool in the same tool cabinet, you can't undo a bolt with a screwdriver, if you keep that analogy in mind then you will be OK. Cloud based setups are helpful but nothing you couldn't do 20 years ago by emailing yourself a copy of your XL report and just downloading the attachment when you login to your email account at your other work location. Hell that principle works on even the Commodore 64

Nothing new or revolutionary will come now until the way these devices interface to the human body become embedded IMO.

[Amiga_Nut]

Same as the Netbook launch, it's all just marketing BS really.

Now what I would like to see is a watch that will run BlitzBasic games for Windows...now THAT would be more useful than a re-boot of the tablet PC machines from the turn of the century haha

[Amiga_Nut]

I see the supposed death of the PC as a pendulum in that for now people are favouring devices with pc's being out of fashion. In a few years from now people will realise that smartphones aren't really that great for everyday computing so the pendulum will shift towards the pc again with devices being relegated to simply gimmicks. Maybe the definition of what a pc is will change but the idea is still valid.

Probably for the consumer market I agree, but even company exec's who get iPads etc still more than likely are given a desktop in their office too. Add to that the regular office workers using desktop PCs and sadly Microsoft will outlive even my niece's grand children I bet (she isn't old enough to have kids, that's how terrible this situation is!)

And the CPU wars are even worse, Macs use x86 and now so will the two biggest console manufacturers in the west.

x86 and Windows.....it's like 1990 all over again.......you're all doomed...dooooooomed