[saiya-jin]

don't worry about PC itself, all offices around the world will make sure this won't die soon even if all gaming went bust. Heck, even myself at home, I haven't yet met a good enough replacement of my do-it-all-super-fast desktop back home.

[api]

True but that won't keep the high end alive. You don't need a very powerful machine to do office stuff. Gaming will keep the "performance PC" alive until a few more years of Moore's Law and people start realizing that these high-end gaming PCs with neonz can run the same sorts of "big data" work loads you can presently only really run in the cloud. In 5-10 years a sub-$2000 performance PC will have 8TB of PCI-X flash, 16 CPU cores, umpteen gazillion GPU cores, and 128GB of RAM, and "wait why do I need Amazon Cloud when I can have it on my desk at 0ms latency?"

[Majestic121]

I would not be so sure about that.

Sure, there is a real comfort to work when you have big screens and a mouse/keyboard, but you don't actually need a PC for that, a tablet is enough.

Right now, PC are still way cheaper and the difference in power is still sensible, but I think this will change very quickly.

Of course, this is true for basic office work : if you need power, as a dev/graphist/whatever, a PC will still be the way to go.

However, most office job don't actually need that much power, and the flexibility offered by a tablet is huge : being able to work from anywhere, bringing your whole computer to take notes/read mails during a reunion, etc...

[moistgorilla]

> Sure, there is a real comfort to work when you have big screens and a mouse/keyboard, but you don't actually need a PC for that, a tablet is enough.

I can hardly get work done on my laptop let alone a tablet.

[Majestic121]

I think I was unclear about what I meant.

I meant you don't really need the power of a PC to work with a big screen : a tablet has/will have enough power to handle it, all you need is a dock for your tablet and and a cable between the big screen and the tablet. Same goes with keyboard.

The upside of a tablet is that while you can dock it and have basically the same comfort you have with a regular PC (minus raw power), you can also unplug it and use it pretty much anywhere.