Lenovo Sure Can Avoid "PC Doomsday"

Figures adoption of tablet devices are amazingly quick to make a number of parties stated that the IT world is heading "post-PC" era, in which the desktop and laptop computers will be replaced by a more compact mobile devices.

However, not everyone agrees with that view, one of which is Lenovo Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing. "We're not looking towards a post-PC world. Instead, I came to is a PC-plus era," he said as quoted by Reuters.

What he means, future PC could no longer rely on "traditional form" of a standard desktop or laptop box. People think that PC should adopt extra features, such as lines made Lenovo Yoga convertible laptop. Laptops that one is able to transform into a tablet.

Another example mentioned is the ultrabook The Twist, also from Lenovo.

Sure, Yang as head of one of the largest PC manufacturer in the world has an interest that the PC era continues. Even so, no denying that the tablet PC market later increasingly undermined.

Research firm NPD DisplaySearch, for example, last week published perikiraan that-for the first time in the history of tablet shipment numbers will surpass laptops in 2013. NPD estimates that as many as 240 million units of the tablet will be shipped worldwide this year, compared to 207 million laptops in the same year.

NPD estimates are based on the number of low PC demand globally, including in emerging markets according to the NPD will switch to buy tablets in large quantities.

Former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie also said last year that it was time for the industry to realize that the world is changing.

"Why argue about it? Surely we headed for the post-PC era," he said.

Not surprisingly, the PC manufacturers have a different opinion. Besides Lenovo, HP is one company who insisted that the PC will not be crushed by mobile devices.

"The opinion (post-PC) was wrong. Example your child to college, what he needs?" asked the vice president of the personal systems group of HP's printing and Todd Bradley. "All he needed was a PC." Companies also need a PC in order to be productive employees. Global PC business is enormous. I think some over-dramatize the situation now. "