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"Windows is done". What a final statement.

PC sales may be mostly done. A desktop that was bought 10 years ago can still run fine today - and many still are.

We reached a point in computing where upgrading doesn't make that big of a difference. You can use the same machine for a decade or more without problem if you're an end user, especially given so many rich web apps that don't require high processing power.

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A Pentium 4 or Athlon XP 2700+ from 10 years ago has been unusable for all but the simplest tasks for years. It would have also needed to be upgraded along the way - it came from the factory with just 256MB or 512MB RAM. You can still edit office documents and do some light web-surfing, but for todays interactive sites and content it falls far behind the experience that an iPad can provide.

I'm not so sure. A Chromebook provides a significantly better experience than an iPad, at least for me and my wife.

Our iPad 2 is now almost exclusively the province of my toddler daughter.

My mom still has no problem using QuickBooks and doing all the required web stuff at work with a Pentium 4 and 512mb ram. She literally just bought a new desktop because quickbooks requires it.

In an office environment, she really doesn't need more.

A decade is a bit much. I'll give you 5 years, but that's about it.

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