The PC Is Dead

For reading books and magazines, e-readers are far superior to desktops and laptops.

, --January 11, 2011

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By John R. Quain It was fun while it lasted, but as of 2011 the era of the desktop computer is officially over.
At least that's the overriding message of last week's gadget and gear extravaganza in Las Vegas known as the Consumer Electronics Show: The PC is dead. In this iPhone-crazed, connected-TV obsessed, high-speed Internet world, the desktop computer is no longer relevant. All those reams of desk-bound e-mail have given way to terse texts from Blackberries. Those zippy, graphics-intensive games are now the domain of consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. More...

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