[citation][nom]Parrdacc[/nom]Maybe. I can see ultrabooks fading away but I think the tablets are here to stay. Personally I do not own one yet, cause I really have no use for one and think they need to become something more than a overgrown smartphone. Yes, yes I know they can do more than a smartphone, but except for a few things here and there they are for the most part a big smartphone. I can see the PC and tablets being with us for a good long time.[/citation]
I agree to a point. I think Ultrabooks "might" take the seat of netbooks, but tablets I believe are here to stay. Tablets might be just amp'd up smartphones, but if the business and consumer markets start to develop a cloud/onlive type approach to using them for even big tasks(where all the processing and etc, are done in the cloud) and the end results are then pumped to the device(which, as far as I can tell would be mostly limited on latency, signal strength, and bandwidth.) Provided those were all at acceptable levels.. Alot of people would no longer need much of anything else.
Played right, and with the right technological steps in invention and innovation.. This could be awesome, and Acer dead wrong.
However.. the current Lawyer/Patent problem will probably cripple any progress down to a trickle.. I'd be surprised to see any amount of "significant" change for the better for years to come... :/