There's a New Species Evolving in PC Space Right Before our Eyes!

These evolutionary changes were happening for sometime now. The classic Wintel (Window + Intel) species have ruled the PC landscape for quite some time now. I am assuming the laptop to be a simple variant of the same PC model. Real change came with the introduction of the netbook. While the OS remained the Windows predominantly, there was a new processor, the Intel Atom. But it was still WinTel. It was sufficiently different variant of the PC. It was designed to be lower powered, meant for the surfing, mail and such Internet based applications in a very convenient, highly portable format.

Suddenly, there is a lot of activity in the Tablet format. Not that the species evolved just now. It has been around for some time.There were periodic attempts at  creating a tablet that will catch the fancy of users. The scene fairly exploded recently with the coming out of the iPad. Just today I read a report it has sold a million pieces in the 28 days it has been selling. There are many tablets in the works. Here are some examples. As with any evolutionary situation, some tablets are getting killed too! Microsoft seems to have killed its version for the tablet space. So did HP apparently, they killed the "slate" model they were readying for the market. Netbook sales seem to have flattened. So is tablet the next avatar of the personal computer. looks like hat. I personally think that's what's going to to happen. Let's see!