For about 15 years now I’ve used a laptop.
When at work I plug it into a large monitor, which I use in conjunction with the laptop sitting beside it as an auxiliary monitor.
I also plug in a standard keyboard and use a wireless mouse.
For the life of me I can’t see how this experience is any different from using a “regular” desktop PC.
Except I can easily take the whole thing with me when I leave the office.
I do the same thing at home. My desktop is seven years old now and I bought a new 17” laptop a year ago. So, now I use the laptop with my 21” monitor and full sized keyboard I used with the desktop. I keep the desktop in working order because it’s XP and I have some programs that won’t run on Windows 7.
To talk strictly about the old desktop configuration is a pointless argument. As I said, I think the divide is between full size keyboards and screens compared to the touch screen keyboards and small screens configurations of tablets and smart phones.
And these new All-in-Ones have large screens and keyboards, but are a very different configuration from the older desktops, but funcationally are about the same.
It’s not any different. I use my laptops 90% of the time and my beastly gaming rig sits gathering dust in my home office.
When I’m at home I even PC game on my newest laptop because it has a dedicated graphics that runs with most higher end desktop cards.
Tablets are still considered toys by many in IT including myself. It’s proven that unless they are strictly locked down with an MDM solution they are epic time wasters in the office.
Laptops and desktops in the work environment are still far more productive at this time.
I think in a few years we still won’t see the elimination of desktops for enterprises, but we will see more VDI, and streaming access to your desktop where nothing is actually kept or stored locally. If you have a computer problem we just swap out your terminal/laptop/tablet and you login to your VDI session and continue on where you were.