The PC lives

_Hewlett-Packard, the largest computer maker in the world, said Wednesday it's looking to get out of the consumer PC business. HP believes its fortunes lie in a business similar to IBM that focuses on supporting large enterprises instead of trying to profit off the razor-thin margins of Pavilion PCs.

_As well recently, Mark Dean, IBM's chief research officer for the Middle East and Africa and an engineer who worked on the IBM's first PC, the 5150, declared the end of the PC. Dean argued the traditional mouse-and-keyboard computer was going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records and a number of other extinct or outmoded technologies. The IBM exec says he now uses a tablet as his primary computing device.

Unless you own a Mac, you can adapt your PC to your situation with relative ease. Need more RAM? Just open your PC up and plug in a new stick. Want to swap out your 320GB HDD for a 512GB SSD? No problem. Tired of Windows and want to give Ubuntu a try? It's only a download away.

The Acer Aspire Z5610 are evolving

PCs with integrated touchscreens just as the Acer Aspire Z5610 are evolving, voice control is getting better, and Microsoft's Kinect Windows SDK may open up a whole new world of interaction for the PC. Who knows? Like as not those wall-sized PC displays predicted by tech luminaries and sci-fi writers may become a standard part of most people's homes earlier the decade is out.

But what about the cloud," you say? "We'll just store all that stuff online." Like as not. Nevertheless the future of the cloud is currently up for debate. Amazon and Google want you to use the cloud as if it were a hard drive accessible from anywhere you have an Internet connection.

Apple's iCloud, in the meantime, is designed to sync your stuff across all your devices. If Apple's vision wins out, you'll on the whole need a device with a large amount of storage in your home as a central repository for stuff that's not being stored online just as older photos. One day, tablets may fit that bill, nevertheless for now PCs are nonetheless a better place to keep your files.

Great tool for using on the go

Tablets are a great tool for using on the go and it's a fair comment to say we're living in the Post-PC era or PC-plus era as Microsoft calls it, nevertheless the PC has a lot of life left in it and tablets are no replacement for my Lenovo X220.

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