Laptops play catch up to the iPad, Xoom

Market researcher Gartner released a research note Thursday claiming that laptops are not meeting the demands of the social-networking era. So, will mobile PCs become more like the Xoom and the
iPad, which are, in turn, larger versions of the smartphone? In a word, yes.
This theory--or fact, depending on how you look at it--can also be restated as the post-PC era, which is the Apple marketing-spin corollary to the Gartner argument.
But let's stick to Gartner's analysis about the

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