Tablets are the future and for a lot of people a tablet is a worthy addition and may well replace laptops for most people. what would be nice is being able to plug your tablet into your pc as a secondary monitor and sync across the pair and as more items go to the cloud as long as you have connectivity you don't need a desktop with tremendous computing power and gig's of ram and TB's of storage space.

We are going full circle again.. smart terminals hooked into a server as it was pre-pc days (with differences in technology).  There will still be a need for some people (the users of channel 9 are in this group) where a desktop will be their mainstay but for the majority of people a tablet will be all that is needed.