Intel believes PCs will make a comeback

[Fulcrum29]

This is a good article on Intel battling in the mobile market:

http://www.dailytech.com/Intels+22+...d+Up+by+Dell+Lenovo+and+ASUS/article34398.htm

New commitments sound promising, but Intel has a history of disappointing in the smartphone and tablet space

With mobile fast-becoming the most-important type of computing in most casual consumers' lives, Intel Corp. (INTC) looked only slightly less lost last year than it had the previous several years in the mobile market.

Read the article

 

[cerebus]

In the mean time we wait for their new proc which is now way overdue

Yep. A resurgence of PCs will only be meaningful if they can find a way to extend Moore's Law.

 

[Fingolfin]

To me a PC is more than just a certain-sized and certain-speed set of hardware: It is a component-based platform based on open specifications that enables true mix-n-match custom-building as a far down as possible, and MOST importantly, does not come with a pre-installed walled garden of remote services that I'm forced to take part in. I should be able to choose if it comes with cameras, microphones or GPS devices. I must be able to install my own OS, run permanently off-line, and I'd like to know that it comes free of pre-installed software or hardware back-doors (though that's probably asking too much these days).

A PC is a Personal Computer, not a licenced/borrowed/rented facility that dangles at the bottom of a set of strings that go up into the sky where one can vaguely see a large pair of hands holding them. This is why I hope Intel is correct, but suspect the vision of the future PC is different from mine...

Bring back the PC!

 

[cerebus]

I like that definition but it's overly optimistic and not really representative of the history of personal computing. I'd even say most people define a PC as a Windows box, end of story. It's hard to come back if it never really existed to begin with.