Comment Re:He's probably right. (Score 1) 352
Trying to do much REAL WORK(tm) on a tablet is an exercise in frustration. By the time you add a keyboard and mouse so that you can be even marginally productive you might as well get the tablet so that you can work even where/when there isn't a wireless network.
The tablet's niche is on the couch or the train or the bus.
I definitely agree that tablets are presently only handy at a few things. I can easily imagine a way that might change, though. Mr. Dell points to the college student as why tablets are no threat to PCs, but peripherals can change. It's hard to envision an exact form, but as computers get smaller and faster (laptops, tablets, and phones included), it makes a sort of sense to have one device at the centre of it all. A smartphone or tablet powering what amounts to a desktop computer once you dock it, or a laptop computer once you slide it in.
In any case, certainly tablets are no immediate threat to the pc market, just denting laptop and especially e-reader sales.