Oh okay and the desktop market is not saturated???
You are also assuming that everyone leaving their old Windows XP Desktops will not upgrade to a Laptop or Tablet.
You mentioned your son purchasing a desktop. I bet if you go to his school that most of his fellow students all have laptops, smart phones and tablets.
I don’t know who gave you that information about Desktops sales. Sorry but it made me laugh. Here is a highly respected firm that researches sales of PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Smart Phones.
Just scroll down to the graphs.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24314413
You keep making the same mistakes as the others who offer very outdated links to articles and predictions that have not come true.
Sure, the PC market is somewhat saturated, with over 1 1/2 established and working PCs, but there is a huge difference between PCs and the mobile market. PCs have a normal refresh cycle of about 1/3 of the market, which means that, there will be over 300 million PCs sold on a yearly basis.
The predictions for a slowing PC market are true, but then, most of those predictions have been off the mark, and PCs will continue to sell in the hundreds of millions per year.
Smartphones are basically the replacements for the old landline phones, and as such, there will always be hundreds of millions sold on a yearly basis, but, for the most part, they’re not really useful for computing purposes or for internet usage without needing constant upsizing of the content on those tiny screens.
The PC is dead, but not really. The predictions have been quite incorrect for the last few years.
BTW, my son graduated from college a few years ago, and he’s working as an accountant for a county government, and that government agency he works at, uses only PCs with Windows.
But, he doesn’t need me to point him to a good deal on a Windows machine, and he got himself a Windows 8.1 PC from Toshiba, with the i7 processor and 1GB drive and a 1080P screen. Nice piece of gear for less than $700 (with coupons and no-tax days the last week (because of schools).