tablets to replace PCs?

In China for example the mobile phone is the main way people access the internet and the internet is the main application that people use the personal computer for.
 
Glaucus said:
What expense and hassle?

Most people will own tablets not desktops. Most people's main point of access is going to be a tablet, so why would you spend £600+ on a tablet, then a similar amount on a desktop.

By hassle, you mean placing tablet in a dock, god that was hard work, better have a sleep.
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so you are saying you can get a powerful tablet, dock and monitor for the same price or cheaper than a desktop/monitor combo?
 
PC's won't be replaced in a majority of peoples houses, but tablets will become more and more common place for people who use a computer more casually to browse a few sites and not do much else.

They would never replace a PC for gaming, but for general browsing they will.
 
paradisiac said:
so you are saying you can get a powerful tablet, dock and monitor for the same price or cheaper than a desktop/monitor combo?
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No.
What I'm saying is people are going to have a tablet(tablets are going to become the defacto device), it's the gaming pc that is expensive edition. So unless your stinking rich, are you going to buy an entire desktop. Or just buy a dock, monitor, k+m and a external gfx card.
This also means when you aren't at the desk you get a tablet.
 
Glaucus said:
No.
What I'm saying is people are going to have a tablet(tablets are going to become the deafacto device), it's the gaming pc that is expensive edition. So unless your stinking rich, are you going to buy an entire desktop. Or just buy a dock, monitor, k+m and a external gfx card.
This also means when you aren't at the desk you get a tablet.
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personally I believe people will just own both, as I don't feel from my experience everyone sold their desktops and went solely over to laptops, and then sold their laptops and went solely over to netbooks. most households will have a main desktop, and then individuals will have their preferenced device, beit a laptop, netbook or tablet. I cannot see the tablet becoming the family device.
 
Efour2 said:
Tablets are fine for emailing
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Quick e-mails maybe but I wouldn't want to use a tablet for any form of prolonged writing (which bring in students and writers who will still need PCs).

Anyone that says typing on a virtual keyboard is just as good as typing on a real keyboard is lying to themselves.


Moses said:
Far less people need the power of a PC... for most, a laptop is fine... and they want the portability, etc. I can see tablet sales going up, laptop sales going down a bit, and desktop sales going down the most.
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This doesn't really make sense, before tablets why would anyone buy a desktop if a laptop/notebook fulfilled their needs? Tablets will impact the notebook market the most.
 
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paradisiac said:
personally I believe people will just own both, as I don't feel from my experience everyone sold their desktops and went solely over to laptops, and then sold their laptops and went solely over to netbooks. most households will have a main desktop, and then individuals will have their preferenced device, beit a laptop, netbook or tablet. I cannot see the tablet becoming the family device.
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I didn't say they will sale their desktops, but when they become old, covered in dust and unusused they simply won't be replaced.

Just take china, for the first time ever and anywhere. Mobile devices overtook desktops for how people are connecting to the Internet.

You can't compare it to laptops. Laptops are miniature desktops. Tablets are a totally new format, that have changed OS, Software and how we view computing.

Even Amd/intel have said they expect CPU sales to drop due to tablets.
 
I liked the idea of the Paceblade, as we sold quite a few of them in my old company some 10 years back. They were a bit special at the time yet they still ran Windows. Now tablets are everywhere and tablets don't seem that special any more.

Sure I like casual games like Angry Birds and the old shareware Bejewelled but I'm a PC gamer at heart and like to play full-on computer games.

I don't think that tablets is the only problem though. Facebook with its Flash games is nibbling into the games market a little bit.
 
estebanrey said:
Quick e-mails maybe but I wouldn't want to use a tablet for any form of prolonged writing (which bring in students and writers who will still need PCs).

Anyone that says typing on a virtual keyboard is just as good as typing on a real keyboard is lying to themselves.
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You just dock the tablet, something companies have been doing for years with laptops. One connection and you have everything attached.
 
Glaucus said:
I didn't say they will sale their desktops, but when they become old, covered in dust and unusused they simply won't be replaced.

Just take china, for the first time ever and anywhere. Mobile devices overtook desktops for how people are connecting to the Internet.
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yeh I understand for the web browsing side. but I still feel most households will still have a shared desktop as its a lot more practical. obviously sales will be higher as it will be 1 desktop per household and 1 mobile device per individual in household. but I don't think there is any fear it will kill off the desktop at all.
 
The only people I can think of that have desktop at home now are people that use them for work.

Laptops/netbooks/tablets certainly are what people buy nowadays. Not having to surrender a space or a room to a computer is a big plus for most people
 
How's it a lot more practicable?
Its expensive, massive so takes up room, totally non portable so it's hours of use is massively limited and thus small.
 
estebanrey said:
Not really, they've been around for ages. It's just they've started becoming popular since Apple made their version in the iPad.
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Not really true the form factor has been around for decades with a normall OS. But you can't really compare them to the current crop of Tablets.
 
Tablets are fine for the folk that want some multimedia, email, and surfing. Tablets will continue to evolve in this market. Power users will continue with desktops and laptops. The pro version of the Windows 8 tablet will offer portability for high end users and will be a step on the road to replacing the desktop pc.

The real revolution will occur when the majority have high speed internet access and the cloud becomes a valuable alternative to local storage and we will see hybrid tablet systems with large screen docking systems. There will have to be changes in hardware with battery life, screens, processing power, storage and memory to facilitate this revolution.

We are at the beginning of a long road which will bring the integration of the desktop, laptops, netbooks tablets and communication devices. It's a journey that I am looking forward to. What great times ahead! :)
 
bledd. said:
The only people I can think of that have desktop at home now are people that use them for work.
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Define work? I use my desktop for leisure.

Gaming (FPS)
Photoshop
Music editing
Video editing

None of the above can you do on a tablet.


simulatorman said:
Tablets are fine for the folk that want some multimedia, email, and surfing. Tablets will continue to evolve in this market. Power users will continue with desktops and laptops.
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This.

Ultimately it's horses for courses. It's like asking if mopeds will negate the need for cars.
 
Glaucus said:
How's it a lot more practicable?
Its expensive, massive so takes up room, totally non portable so it's hours of use is massively limited and thus small.
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how so :confused: most desktops are no longer than a desk, so to dock your tablet you would still require a desk to put your monitor, keyboard and mouse on. or is there something magic that means these things are tiny and float around so no need for a desk?
 
The laptop market might see a decline depending on how business orientated tablets become, the current crop are basically toys with email functionality, but they won't replace desktops.
 
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