Originally Posted by MrFurious
I sat through a Dell webcast talking about notebook sales. Once the price point is right, the desktop will be a rare thing.
As a friend so eloquently put it - "you can't surf from the bathroom toilet with a desktop"
Microsoft said the same about the Tablet PC, and the Portable displays...
Laptops STILL don't have the power to price ratio a desktop does. I can put together a VERY powerful desktop with a 17" display, but the equivelent in a laptop would be around $4000.
Prices on laptops ARE coming down but they will never replace the desktop for consumers. Of course, the business user is different, and they have different wishes in terms of power and features.
Something interesting this year will be the super-sub notebooks like the Flybook and OQO. These devices are not too much bigger than a PDA yet run off the shelf Windows and have regular ports like VGA. Devices like the Flybook even have WiFi, GPRS and Bluetooth in one piece of hardware...