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[fastpathguru]

All I've ever said is that tablets can replace PCs for many tasks. I.e. they can do content consumption very well, and lighter-weight productivity tasks (better with some common peripherals.)

Yeah, not sure that's a fair characterization of your position on this topic...

The vast majority of even "productivity workers" would be fine with WLAN/VPN/kb/mouse/4k-or-less-display and a processor capable of supporting a word-processor...

...Mostly available in today's smartphones and all of which will be available in the next-gen of high-end smartphones. Inertia is all the less-than-workstation-class PC has going for it...

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That was your argument for smartphones replacing PCs, not even tablets replacing PCs.

Dude, you're right back to the black&white language again, i.e. "smartphones replacing PCs" and "tablets replacing PCs".

This is foolish, a straw-man. Oh and BTW, in case you didn't realize, phones and tablets are pretty much the same platform but with different tradeoffs, with phablets attempting to reach a happy middle ground.

From chipguy's "gotcha" article, we already know that some phones and some tablets are replacing some PCs.

I gave a specification of a system that would satisfy 'the vast majority of even "productivity workers"': "WLAN/VPN/kb/mouse/4k-or-less-display and a processor capable of supporting a word-processor"... And then said that even today's smartphones (but for sure, the next-gen high-end smartphones) can satisfy those requirements.

That the smartphone form-factor can/will be able to satisfy those requirements is FACT. If you dispute the requirements, that's a different issue.

None of what you quoted in your "gotcha!" post contradicts what I have been saying all along.

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