First of all, despite falling growth in PCs this year, IDC also predicts PC sales will . Shoppers are expected to opt for PCs next year thanks to devices with thinner designs, longer battery life, instant on, and touch.

But it's not just sales that will keep the PC afloat, there also are practical reasons to keep the PC alive for the foreseeable future.

We All Drive Trucks For A Living

Steve Jobs in 2010 famously compared PCs to trucks. The argument goes that more people will gravitate toward using tablets while PCs will be used by people who need some serious horsepower to drive down the digital highway such as graphic designers and video editors. The premise of this argument is that people largely use PCs for doing email and other light typing, checking Facebook, watching videos and playing games.

The problem is an untold number of people still need to use PCs at work, because tablets (at least as they stand now) simply aren't up to the job.