I get the iPad3 craze

[HopeHoops]

23. It's inevitable. The laptop has almost replaced the desktop (except for servers).

As soon as all external devices use something better than Blue Tooth, and they figure out how to make a touch screen feel like a keyboard, the tablets will displace the laptop. HDMI has almost replaced VGA, but damn near every computer has a VGA port that's also considered the primary boot screen. Floppy drives? I've got a 3 1/2" USB drive that works just fine, but what about my 5 1/4" floppies? (I keep machines with 5 1/4" drives active for that purpose). I've got a few with built in ZIP drives. Remember those? 100K on a disk. Serial ports? Parallel ports? No such luck. At least the Ethernet port still accepts the same connection. There are a lot of deficiencies with tablets, but the same was true of laptops when they came out. I still have one of the original IBM ThinkPads with the nipple in the keyboard. I loved using that machine (and no, not because it sounds rude).

I tend to be a late adapter to such things, mostly to let the "IT'S SHINY" morons spend the big money and cry about their problems. After things have stabilized, I look at it and decide if I'm interested.