You may be right JNJ, but not tomorrow or even next year.... Things are headed towards an app based, resettable device world, but even then there is a place for powerful computing out there, a gap that tablets cannot step in and fill. SAS is one place in our environment I see the current crop of laptops failing on over and over and even larger Excel Spreadsheets sometimes cause overheating and shut downs. Should that be offloaded to the servers somewhere? Absolutely. Is that a reality in a lot of situations, no. So while I agree everyone is paying more for less on these tablets I don't see the desktop gone completely, yet. Besides all that, the current crop of MS based has proved to be a disaster for us in our environment. We have 15 in service and they are a disaster. My VP has had two TPT2's so far and one has failed and the other has had to be reset 2x.. Something he points out would be a disaster for us if we had 3500 in service. I see where things are going, I just don't think we are all going there anytime soon, that's all.
If our experience so far influences our choices going forward, I will have to pick up a sword and shield and go into battle to get them in our space.... As Spartan Mothers said to their sons: 'Son, either with this or on this.' I think I would be carried back on my shield from that meeting right now. This might change but time will tell.