web/IM/email are the *ONLY THREE THINGS* done on any PC in an average home.
Yup!
After I use the camera to edit and post the pictures to the web the picture frame takes the little memory thingie right out of the camera, so does the printer and the printer lets me copy them to another memory thingie. the IPad plays music while I do the other 3 things, the big screen TV is hooked up to an Apple TV it plays music through my stereo and puts the movies on the TV the XBOX takes care of the games. The PS3 plays the rest of the high end games and plays Blue Ray and the Wii is the exercise unit and also streams Netflix
With this arrangement at my house and an IPad at the parents (they hardly ever play games or stream movies) I don't have to go over the their house and fix their stupid Windows piece of crap that always falls off the network, gets a virus/malware or is being crashed by Flash!