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I think Apple had better start worrying about the new Google Android tablet computers that re coming out starting next month, to take on the iPad. As for the iPad, taking out Windows 7 laptops and desktops, not gonna happen. They serve different markets, plus Win 7 laptops are cheaper then the iPads, and have far more features and bigger screens, and run vastly more apps.

The desktop is currently on its death bed, why? Because of laptops getting more powerful and much lighter. I take my laptop almost everywhere and rarely use the desktop at home. At work it's mostly the desktop but I have been thinking seriously about putting it aside and use the laptop instead.

I think the ipad in time and after a few revisions may do the same thing to laptops. Let's wait a few years and see what happens but the ipad is definitely setting up a trend.

To replace the laptop, it will need a keyboard, a way to stand up on it’s own, more storage and more connections. When you have all of those, you have a laptop.

I was looking at the iPad over the weekend thinking about how I would travel with it. It would need a case to protect the screen, by the time you add that, it take up about as much space as our Eee PC.

The desktop is currently on its death bed, why? Because of laptops getting more powerful and much lighter.

Laptop sales shot up because laptop prices collapsed from their previously expensive levels. That's the number one reason why laptop(and netbook) sales rocketed up.
It doesn't matter how light laptops got, if they were still selling at their old expensive prices, they still wouldn't sell much.
BTW, before you request a funeral for desktop PC sales, you'd better look at NPD’s figures for desktop sales since Win 7 came out:

“The firm said that February marks the third time in the last four months that desktop revenue grew faster than netbooks, and the fifth consecutive month of desktop revenue and unit increases
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According to NPD, the Windows desktops saw a 15% rise in units and an 8% increase in dollars over the four months since Windows 7 launched. Although modest, the increase is viewed as positive as, prior to the introduction of Windows 7, desktop sales declined 21 out of 22 months’
http://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2010/03/sales-increase-desktop-windows
Desktop sales are not quite dead yet.

I think the ipad in time and after a few revisions may do the same thing to laptops.

This is the difference: desktops and laptops run the same Windows OS, same applications, both have keyboards, and both do exactly the same thing, only at the time, laptops were far more expensive than desktops, so of course the moment laptop prices fell sharply, laptop sales shot up.
The iPad is totally different.
It doesn't run the same Windows OS as most laptops do, it doesn't have a keyboard, doesn't run all the apps that Window does, and it actually costs more than most Windows laptops do right now.
I don't see why Windows user would spend more money to buy a product that does much less than their Windows laptop does.