There's no question anymore. The iPad is what engineers and visionaries envisioned personal computing to look like ever since the early seventies at least. So in a way, the PC isn't dying, it's just now coming alive.

Now that we're officially in the future, the conventional PC isn't going to die. But it will dwindle, become a specialty tool for specialty users. The iPad and iPhone will take over as mass-market general computing devices.

The PC probably is losing steam; most people are happy enough with whatever 5-years vintage machine, nowadays. However, I totally agree with the idea that HP selling its PC division is complete craziness (the best parallel I've seen would be McDonalds stopping selling hamburgers, on the premise that there aren't making enough profit on them).

I just have to raise my head to see at least 60 new HP computers and 100 23' HP monitors in my office. I don't see any of all this people using an iPad (most of us have one) to do work. So no, the PC market is not dead and it ain't going to be replaced by some 10 inch media player. Hell, I even have an iMac sitting idle next to me because I can't get it to work as I want to.

What they are saying is it's the death of the PC for casual people, which I somewhat agree with. There will always be desktops around, no doubt, but will the general population still be buying them in 10 years when they can just hookup a tablet to their big screen ? I don't think so, no reason.