Death of the desktop?

"Phones and tablets and TVs and other devices can do so many of the functions that we used to put on the PC," said Scott Stein of CNet.com.

"There's after all that research that you need desktop power for. Mainly gaming and editing, that sort of high-end stuff," said Bigler.

Some analysts predict that, within five years, mobile devices will pass desktops as our means for connecting to the Internet.