PC's are big, expensive, power hungry and noisy.

Tablets are small, cheap, portable, silent, generally have a camera, speakers, and microphone which gives them built in telephony features, and an easy UI. I can buy a decent tablet for less than $100 on eBay or the local discount store.

What are the redeeming qualities of a PC? Tactile IO: there is something to be said about a typing with a keyboard as opposed to a flat screen. Better audio and video quality: its just has a bigger screen and a better presentation system then a system with micro speaker and 7" screen. Deeper interfaces. For all the issues that Window's has its can do more then a tablet OS. Modularity, Upgrade-ability, and repair-ability: If I want a bigger screen I buy one for my PC. If want bigger screen in tablet I have to buy a whole new machine.

For these issue PC's will always be around. But they will get pushed in the development and special needs category in the next decade or so. Tablets will keep coming down in prices. Operation system like Ubuntu that give tablets more of the PC's feature. One off devices like the Roku and game systems like the XBox One will take up the home media center and entertainment.

I would donate so cash if someone could could port this to ARM, specifically Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard Black.

You can download emulators and ROM's for little to no money. The only time a game is going to be worth anything more then scrap value is if the cart is physically rare like baseball cards. There will only ever be a handful that will meet that kind of rarity.

It was fun to write code that let me print on the thermal printer. The rubber keyboard was such a pain to use.

Isn't that just Visual Basic 6, VBScript, JScript, ActionScript, Real Basic, Jabaco, or JavaScript/ECMAScript? There are languages out there and even C# has the dreaded 'var' in it as well. I just don't see Dart's use outside of Google products.

A company that has $13 million in revenue in 2012 and hopes to only make $100 million in 2013 is purchased for 1.1 billion? This smells of a multi-level pump and dump scheme.

I will bet what will happen in the next 18 months is: Yahoo buy's out Tumblr. Tumblr's CEO sells all his stock Monday morning and get insanely rich. The new tYahoo company goes bankrupt by the end of the year. Microsoft or Bill Gates himself will swoop in and FINALLY by buy Yahoo making the current CEO insanely rich. If gates himself buys it sells Yahoo back to MS and adds to his insane fortune. Microsoft and integrates all of tYahoo's tech into MS and starts a second round of war against Google search and Google products.

How long before they're offered as TracFone's for $19.95 with 20 minutes free?

Weird thought: If you're going to take the time put Linux on the machine why not just get a clean image of Windows and re-image each drive. Just make a boot CD and image old drives.

Relevant Link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Tor-relay/

So said the buggy whip manufactures around the turn of the century.

Look at the video game industry. The first 8 bit era (Atari 2600) brought out a bunch of clones that flooded and killed the market for year. Then NES and TurboGraphics came out and create a great 8 revival and slide into the 16 bit era. Then the 32bit era was full of crap until the PS-X.

The market will re-invent itself and become something new. The PC market will follow suit by making smaller faster machines. I think the next big step maybe Ubuntu next version or similar OS. Its practically a polymorphic interface that changes between desktop, phone and tablet depending on if its plugged into a keyboard or monitor. Metro was a great idea for tablets but horrible desktop.