While most analysts attributed the tablet as a separate category of mobile devices, - this segment is young and developing in accordance with their specific trends. Nevertheless, among the industry experts are those willing to classify tablet to the total weight of personal computers .
As reports Computerworld citing comments by analysts Creative Strategies, among tablets already are two typical subspecies: small cheap device oriented for information consumption, and more efficient solutions that in terms of functionality may eventually come close to laptops. Anyway, according to experts, in the near future devices will be significantly transformed into popular conventional laptops.
Tablets productive in this sense will be closer to personal computers, and gradually enter their number in terms of statistics. Although there are now signs of slowing in sales volumes of personal computers, experts cautiously predict achievement of bottom in 2014. Previously it was thought that the increase in demand for PCs will resume at first in 2012, then in 2013, but this has not happened. In the notebook segment incentive to upgrade could be to introduce models with long battery life. Along with the growth in demand for productive tablet, all of which may serve as a stimulus for growth in demand for personal computers in the broadest sense of the term. Cheap Tablets, consumption-oriented information in the foreseeable future will be the opposite pole. If in one year will see an increase in demand for PCs, the following advantages can be on the side of the budget tablet devices, and so on. Desktops will be the only computing device of its kind in the family, and each family member will get a tablet of some type as a personal mobile device.
Popularity of productive tablets may play into the hands of Apple, Microsoft and Intel. The first of them, according to some reports, may provide a larger tablet, which will be an alternative junior models series notebook MacBook Air. In turn, Microsoft when promoting their tablets based on those consumers need to work a keyboard and a more or less familiar set of applications. Finally, Intel together with partners now relies on transformable mobile devices that also allow to work with the keyboard, but equipped with a touchscreen interface.