I don’t see tablets taking over the sales of desktops and laptops and I definitely don’t see a tablet as a suitable laptop replacement. My desktop has a nice 23” display, when I get a laptop it will have a nice 17” display. A tablet maxes out at 10” and when you have the on screen keyboard open a good chunk of your screen real estate is gone especially if you have one of those yucky DOA 7” things. With tablets lacking things like optical storage, USB ports for offloading content to flash drives, a LAN port, decent processors to be able to handle real tasks, tablets are a joke compared to current laptops and desktops.
I see tablets as a toy, a gadget that makes life in some ways more easier and something to play around with, but I don’t see writing a term paper on one, or even watching video for extended periods of time. And who knows tablets may end up like netbooks. Anyone remember those things? Hottest piece of technology 2 years ago, today all but irrelevant.