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Originally Posted by Yolina
The thing is though that even a couple of years ago, I wouldn't have considered a hybrid - they just weren't good enough IMHO - so I had a laptop and a tablet - now I can just use the SP3. My phone is a Note 4 so between that and the SP3, I really no longer have a use for a separate tablet.
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Exactly.
Three years is an eternity in the computing world, to say nothing of five.
In that time Intel got serious about mobile processors (the current Atoms are really good SOCs, to say nothing of the newest Core CPUs; you can get a tablet with a Core i7!), Microsoft matured Azure and refined its mobile message, and now they got Win10 out the door.
It's a whole different environment.
And the devices are entirely different.
MS started Surface to prod their OEMs out of their slacker designs and they've general succeeded. Quality has gone up and the crapware is starting to vanish, especially with MS selling the Signature Editions to make the point that people prefer clean Windows.
Like with everything else, there will still be tablet users out there but the whole tablets will kill laptops meme is on the way out the door.