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I should have defined PC more clearly. To me a PC is any device that runs Intel's(or AMD's) X86 Architecture, Is windows based and is non-touch. Touch-based PC's are just an evolution of Tablets. See Lenovo's new Thinkpad Tablet, where for $100 you get a keyboard and it converts to a Touch-Based device running "Android"!!. Microsoft, in their new Touch-Based PC's is going to mainly use ARM processors, which means all the old windows software is not going to work. MS might just invent a new OS and Device for the same, but I guess for marketing purposes is calling these devices "PCs".



Very inventive definition of a PC there. And totally wrong. What do you call Linux PCs? Or NeXT PCs? The Amiga? Spectrum? BBC Micro? Acorn?

The term PC was about long before Windows and Intel rose to dominance, don't pretend you meant anything else.

If you think that ARM is going to suddenly win overnight just because windows is offering a Windows that works on ARM you're wrong. Intel's here to stay a while precisely because most software won't work on ARM. You're a whole generation too early on your prediction.




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