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I think some people are losing the meaning of OP's quote.
 
First and foremost, most consumers do not need a high performing device, they mostly browse the Internet and do small workloads such as text-editing (this is what I observed in retail).
The power of the high-end tablets (at the moment) would be perfect for a good chunk of consumers. The other part need power currently found in mid-range laptops. They won't even leverage all that power anyway, most of the time.
When we increase the performance of tablets to match the computing power of mid-range laptops, most consumers won't need anything other than a tablet.
The only thing I can think of that could make someone want a laptop more than a tablet is ergonomics.
 
People saying that tablets don't have the power required by most consumers probably didn't think of the Surface Pro. Yes, it is considered as a tablet.
 
What was said is :
 
I actually agree with this, for most consumers, this is possible. Practically, this is virtualization or renting servers to do the workload for you ; a lot of enterprises actually do rent servers to do work instead of having their own.
There is only a small difference : whereas in enterprises you don't actually need to see the output of the system (by this I mean a desktop environment --- excluding CLI), the only thing you need to put is a desktop environment to suit consumers.
 
Of course there will always be people that prefer having a desktop machine with proper keyboard and with lots of power :
They want to manage their stuff. They want to own it for several reasons (security, privacy, etc). They want the assurance of being able to work offline. Enthusiasts, because that's our thing. Even for gaming, virtualization could be done if and only if the experience is enjoyable. This will happen when a better infrastructure is established.
You could game even game on a tablet (it just acts as a receiver) : plugging a screen, and your peripherals to it (tablets OSes would need to support it though, which would be quite easy).

Koodo is the shit in Canada. Unless you want more data which is stupid expensive anyway you look at it Koodo prepaid off contract is the best and most cost effective mobile wireless service in Canada.

Was cleaning my old computer the other day, thing was going over 90°C (Athlon X2 6400+) and I found this :
 
 
 

Very nice guide, I just used it to setup my home server. There are things that should be specified and that I would have liked to seen when I had troubles :
 
Installing virtualbox was a nightmare. Basically it said that the linux-headers package wasn't found. Then I switched to various forums' advice to get from the virtualbox website using backports. They all failed. I was needing the linux-headers-3.2.04-amd64 but apt said it wasn't going to be installed. Even after switching to multiple mirrors, same error and very little progress. Said gcc-4.6 was not installable. Various lib-* packages that virtualbox depended upon were not installable.
 
Now I decided to simulate a fresh install on a VM on my Windows computer. I said to myself : "Why not try the US mirrors when you install Debian?". After having installed exactly the same way (apart from the mirror), I directly ran
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox and BAM ! Virtualbox installed on the Debian VM.
 
I then -after installing emacs- checked the mirrors in the VM :
$ sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy maindeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy maindeb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates maindeb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates maindeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main So I went to my actual server that was before refusing to install most packages related to virtualbox and edited the /etc/apt/sources.list to match the configuration above.
I actually commented (putting # as first character on the line) all other mirrors. I then ran
sudo apt-get install virtualbox and BOOM! It worked ! The linux-header that wasn't going to be installed was actually "generated".
 
tl;dr : If the linux-headers is "not going to be installed" or you're having a hard time installing Virtualbox, change your apt-get mirrors (/etc/apt/sources.list) to match the configuration above.
 
As you've probably noticed, I'm putting some not important information in my post. This is because I hope google search can actually pick-up this search and help anyone having the same difficulties. I would've loved to see someone saying that the United States was the one to go with.

Very nice guide, I just used it to setup my home server. There are things that should be specified and that I would have liked to seen when I had troubles :
 
Installing virtualbox was a nightmare. Basically it said that the linux-headers package wasn't found. Then I switched to various forums' advice to get from the virtualbox website using backports. They all failed. I was needing the linux-headers-3.2.04-amd64 but apt said it wasn't going to be installed. Even after switching to multiple mirrors, same error and very little progress. Said gcc-4.6 was not installable. Various lib-* packages that virtualbox depended upon were not installable.
 
Now I decided to simulate a fresh install on a VM on my Windows computer. I said to myself : "Why not try the US mirrors when you install Debian?". After having installed exactly the same way (apart from the mirror), I directly ran
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox and BAM ! Virtualbox installed on the Debian VM.
 
I then -after installing emacs- checked the mirrors in the VM :
$ sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy maindeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy maindeb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates maindeb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates maindeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main So I went to my actual server that was before refusing to install most packages related to virtualbox and edited the /etc/apt/sources.list to match the configuration above.
I actually commented (putting # as first character on the line) all other mirrors. I then ran
sudo apt-get install virtualbox and BOOM! It worked ! The linux-header that wasn't going to be installed was actually "generated".
 
tl;dr : If the linux-headers is "not going to be installed" or you're having a hard time installing Virtualbox, change your apt-get mirrors (/etc/apt/sources.list) to match the configuration above.
 
As you've probably noticed, I'm putting some not important information in my post. This is because I hope google search can actually pick-up this search and help anyone having the same difficulties. I would've loved to see someone saying that the United States was the one to go with.

Installing webmin
Webmin is an awesome online management tool which makes managing your server easier. I actually use it more for uploading stuff to my server than anything else, but it is very nice to have. If you every land on a computer where you can't access SSH, you can simply manage your server via a browser (which has proven its use to me a couple of times).
 
To install it, you can simply follow the instructions on the webmin website. In short, you need to do:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.630_all.debsudo apt-get install -f perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions pythonsudo dpkg --install webmin_1.630_all.debrm webmin_1.630_all.deb After that, you may reach webmin by browsing to https://192.168.1.150:10000
 
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Was cleaning my old computer the other day, thing was going over 90°C (Athlon X2 6400+) and I found this :
 
 
 

Was cleaning my old computer the other day, thing was going over 90°C (Athlon X2 6400+) and I found this :
 
 
 

Was cleaning my old computer the other day, thing was going over 90°C (Athlon X2 6400+) and I found this :