Hi :) This is true but all eyes are on the portable devices.  It will be a few years before people realise that they really do need a proper desktop.  The problem is that desktops are seen as slow monstrosities.  Sure they are fast when you first get them but they soon suffer slowdowns and multiple problems.  People see portable devices being faster and staying fast.  They just don't make the connection that it's the OS not the machine.  Windows successfully killed off the 1st wave of smaller, lighter machines (netbooks) by insisting on the Windows versions being sold in shops and blocking the ones with OSes made for the form factor.  Everyone i know of that still has the original OSes or replaced them or the Windows with Ubuntu still loves their machines all these years later.  Everyone that stuck with Windows on them thinks they are retarded, even though the specs are probably higher than the tablets they love. So the question is will people remember only how slow desktops quickly became or will they wonder if the 'new' OSes such as Android or Ubuntu can work on the desktops too.  Regards from Tom :)  >________________________________ > From: Martin Wildam