But what about the cloud," you say? "We'll just store all that stuff online." Maybe. But the future of the cloud is currently up for debate. Amazon and Google want you to use the cloud as if it were a hard drive accessible from anywhere you have an Internet connection.

, meanwhile, is designed to sync your stuff across all your devices. If Apple's vision wins out, you'll still need a device with a large amount of storage in your home as a central repository for stuff that's not being stored online such as older photos. One day, tablets may fit that bill, but for now PCs are still a better place to keep your files.

Tablets are a great tool for using on the go and it's a fair comment to say we're living in the or as Microsoft calls it, but the PC has a lot of life left in it and tablets are no replacement for my .

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