As for me, the tablet experience in its current form can never replace laptop experience. I know there are people that can bend a tablet to their will, to make entries on tablet is an exercise in hunting and pecky futility. Tablet still can't do what laptops do.
One thing I am looking forward to seeing the outcome of, is how much cloud computing will catch on. Hard to say at this point, but perhaps we will know next year at this time.
@FlyingScot, Well I agree, however, we will know the outcome by the end of this year whether desk top PC will remain relevant. Remember schools and colleges are beginning to use tablets. It's portable, workable and saves space. Younger ones tend to gravitate towards latest technology.
@Bolaji, I agree with you completely. Having a college freshman, a high school senior and freshman, the tablets are but a mere toy for wasting time and getting on Facebook. There are times it is hard enough to time out a long email on a smartphone without a keyboard or a tablet, let alone a multiple page school project. The tablet market will continue to grow and the survivors will get weeded out, but they are not going to replace a laptop for any serious user.
@Ariella, thanks for your comment. Yes my point is that analyst don't often get things right. Hence, sales projections (though essential) alone can constitute a fiscal health hazards to a company. Executives do monitor other projection, events and developments that may influence performance.
"Ultrabooks won't save the PC market. Rather, they will further hurt notebooks"
Anna, I think ultrabooks are more suitable for enterprise and SMB community, where they need more computing power than normal laptops and net books. For normal users it's not going to be having any effect because in price wise also it's slightly more than the normal laptop or netbooks.
Lots of great predictions and analysis. The slow growth and broadening of the earnings gap between successful and unsuccessful companies suggest that more mergers and acquisitions will be seen in 2012.
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