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The new docking station and ability to drive high resolution displays is a lot more important than sites are recognizing. We can finally truly have 1 machine for everything on the go and docked at work or at home. No doubt it'll likely be more of a pleasure perhaps in a Surface Pro 3 that would be lighter and even more powerful.

I don't really see the current crop of convertible laptop/tablets as solving this problem due to low perf and the fact that I'd never be able to code all day on those cramped keyboards.

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This. I would go as far as to say this is where the PC is headed. Consumers will have one device like the Surface2 which is a tablet on the go and can be docked on the desk. Its already powerful enough for most peoples computing tasks and this will get alot better in the coming years.

The traditional desktop PC will be (or already is) a niche again like workstations from the past for professionals.

This is where I see the traditional PC headed. Many people think that MS and traditional PC makers are taking a risk by making convertible/dual-use devices, but Apple is also taking a risk by not doing it. If the market decides that having a tablet that can multi-task as a fully fledged PC is a good idea, then Apple has a problem, because they can't make OSX touch friendly in a hurry. Their other option is make iOS more capable and make it run on Macbook level devices, but this won't be a quick task.

Many people will say that dedicated devices like tablets and laptops are what people want, but there are plenty of cases where a multi-use device succeeds. The obvious case is the smartphone - it's basically combined a phone, MP3 player and camera together, and people love it.

Good point. Ever since I touched my first computng device I've been longing for something that would fullfill the "1 machine for everything" principle properly. Lately this turns up more often on the net, mainly while referring to phone-like devices which seems awful to me as the screen is just to tiny to feel comfortable. A surface-size device however would be the real deal, for me at least.

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