(3) the PC platform will never die. But Panasonic is seemingly trying to prove the third truth wrong at CES 2013 in Las Vegas with a very interesting prototype: a 20-inch 4K tablet. If anything, it may kill off the AIOs, at least.
It also has an Intel Core i5 3427U vPro CPU clocked at 1.8 GHz, Nvidia GeForce graphics, 4 GB of RAM (16 GB max), and a 128 GB SSD.
It's funny how some tech journos are so desperate to sound like they know something when in fact, they know little.
Please enlighten me: I see a device that's slightly smaller than an AiO's monitor, has PC hardware (not an Atom SoC), so it's evidently still an AiO that's not an AiO. It's a large tablet PC.
So large, that i can't use it as a tablet PC as i would use something like the Surface Pro, but smaller than an AiO and without a mouse and keyboard.
It's price is unknown.
It's a prototype.
Yet it's supposed to kill of PCs, being a PC itself. Or, as the writer appears to be more certain, AiOs are history, from something that's neither a portable tablet PC nor an AiO (neither is it selling and perhaps not even in production).
Has logic gone to hell?
It's more like an interactive touchscreen that may be good for providing weather and stock info and control household devices, perhaps even light news/youtube/web browsing or even a central media player, for which the Bay Trail Atoms would be more than sufficient and appropriate.
Why are so many people so desperate for a post-PC era when it's so far been clear to me that nothing has been capable enough to take its place? I believe that the PC platform will be the very vehicle that helps us cross over to computing in the 2020s.