I had to go and read your Win8 review before I commented on this story. In my opinion, the concept of "personal computer" has transformed. It is no longer a machine that sits on a table or desk, but one that is carried around in a person's pocket, purse, or bag. In your Win8 review, you even mention that your company is a "BYOD" organization. That's what Microsoft is betting the farm on. Laptops and desktops might be powerful entities, but their bone structure is prehistoric, as far as tech goes. Only the masochistic would want to do data entry on a handheld device, but wireless keyboards and monitors are a commodity. All you need is a wireless connection, and your handheld becomes the terminal to the cloud.
The world needs to move beyond traditional desktops and laptops. In my dream scenario, I would have a Surface table (the original concept from MS, not the silly laptop they created) as my home server, and an XBox with Kinect, and a full wall screen. I come home, put the handheld on the Surface, it does it's thing, the wall screen starts, and tells me I have such and such, and this and that. If I need to do some data entry, I open a drawer under the table for a wireless keyboard, and the Surface screen windows a word processor, or whatever passes for one by then. All voice and motion from couch potato mode.
Yeah, it's a Star Trek-like scenario, but it's doable, and almost within affordability in another few years. But the key devices are the handheld, the cloud, and wireless keyboards and monitors.
