, kettch wrote

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But he's right. I think it will take a while to show up, but people are buying desktops out of habit right now.

It's not just about the desktop PC. He also means notebooks and netbooks (basically everything will vanish besides smartphones and tablets).

And that's nonsense. Even Surface, if attached to the keyboard, basically becomes just a glorified notebook. Not even the Windows 8 overlord believes in a pure tabletopia.