Yes, smaller devices are getting more powerful. You can do today on a netbook what you would have needed a high spec desktop to do a few years back.

We're just talking physical size after all. A laptop gives more size over a netbook as a deskptop gives more size over a laptop. That size difference is because of more powerful CPUs, GPUs, larger and more numerous drives, RAM and a larger power supply to run them all. That is only going to continue.

Sure, the laptops of tomorrow will be as powerful as the desktops of today but what this and every other report forseeing the demise of the desktop PC forgets is that our requirements will continue to change with the progress. They seem to assume that our requirements and the potential of tomorrows software and computational needs wont be any different from today which is totally wrong. We all know that 640K of RAM wasn't enough... and in ten years time the 4GB/8GB quad cores of today are going to look paltry.

Yes, we could run Poser 1 and 2 on a netbook today probably better than when it was released on a fast desktop - but we don't run Poser 1 today and that is going to be the case for the forseeable future.

The choice of PC format is a size limitation. We run desktops because they give us the most power we can achieve in a home situation - racks of blade servers are not really practical. These reports are just as naive as that 640K RAM will be more than enough statement and those of IBM who predicted a computer in every town of the future...