From BetaNews:
The traditional personal computer is returning to the niche from whence it sprang at the dawn of the Internet age, but general purpose computing isn’t dead yet.
With consumer desktop and notebook computer sales in decline, and lower-powered, general purpose devices such as the iPad encroaching on resource-light communications and data management tasks in the workplace, the PC business is gearing down. Former consumer PC market leader Dell has all but exited the consumer hardware business and has been on an enterprise software and services buying spree.