on a possible new golden era for PCs:

As I’ve demonstrated in previous columns, PCs are still being actively used by all consumer age groups; they continue to be the dominant productivity devices in businesses of all sizes and they’re still in demand by many consumers. Many in the tech press and blogosphere would have had us believe that most people were going to (or already had) suddenly abandon(ed) their PCs for tablets, and the old clunkers were never to be seen again. But the facts simply do not support this view. The change process across the majority of mainstream users usually goes much slower than those on the cutting edge expect it to, and that has clearly been the case with PCs.

In the past months I’ve reevaluated the role of laptops. As a result, I’ve pretty much abandoned the idea of creating much content on my iPad. Despite that I use it a lot every day but mostly to read, edit, correct and watch.

For anything that involves more complex tasks I use my Mac. I am not willing to sacrifice productivity for lightness. Surely you can find lots of workarounds to carry out complex workflows, but they remain workarounds, not solutions. 

I’m convinced that there’s a wide range of users that have managed to adapt their workflows to work on an iPad. Sadly (maybe), I am not one of them.