The pc isn't dead. I still would rather watch videos and do heavy typing on my pc rather than my tablet. Everyhting else, though, I can do on my tablet.

windude99 said:

The pc isn't dead. I still would rather watch videos and do heavy typing on my pc rather than my tablet. Everyhting else, though, I can do on my tablet.

Nor will it die anytime soon. There is a multi-billion dollar industry supplying components to people like me who rolls their own and OEMs as well.
Remember the PDA? That was like a tablet.

Pc won't die anytime soon and guess what? Pc has been making more money then the ps3 lately,coming in 2nd with the most sales according to EA sale stats.
EA release first quarter financial results: how much did they make from PC? | PC Gamer
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"PC delivered $276 million, the Xbox 360 $292 million and the PS3 $267 million. So the EA, one of the biggest publishers in the world, made more money from the PC than from the PS3."

I believe between pc gamers and the enthusiast is what's keeping the pc alive since they will buy all the new tech stuff and pc gamers will buy pc games and stuff like graphic cards,cpus,mobos ect... and such which will keep companies like intel, amd,nvdia and microsoft in business.

First what is a PC ?
I like my large screen, keyboard, mouse, tablet and other user I/O interfaces that I can use sitting at a desk on a decent chair.

BUT I remember when the first Mac was introduced - that little box thing with a small screen and that "windows" environment which was surely designed for the technically challenged. I was sure this type of thing would fizzle out!

PC=Personal Computer, a term coined by IBM way back when they first sold a "home" computer with a tower and monitor. then every one got into the game and they referred to them as IBM clones.

I actually knew PC stood for Personal Computer and I bought one of the IBM XT clones as my first PC a long time ago.
I meant was what do we now mean as "Personal Computing" now and in the future.

I question if there will be some true unification or accept a hardware split to accommodate different purposes.
I'll also put out there the question - Is the current technology direction actually dumbing down our children?

Gotcha Michael. As for the children being dumbed down, yes. You can see them struggle with a simple thing like figuring a 10% discount, and they don't read well nor much. Too many alternate reality game universes to be involved in for real life.