Well, if you are on the road a lot, you need a mobile computer, obviously. Most of the engineers (probably all of them) at my employer have laptops, too. They n

Well, if you are on the road a lot, you need a mobile computer, obviously. Most of the engineers (probably all of them) at my employer have laptops, too. They need them, because they are on the move a lot of the time, visiting customers, construction sites and so forth. But all of the office workers have regular PCs, so do the CAD people. No, wait - strike that. Some of the CAD people have laptops, too. But there is a market for open PCs that can run any OS and software you like, that can be extended through extension cards, where you can upgrade CPU, RAM, graphics card independently of each other and so forth. It is not what it used to be, and it will continue to shrink, but I don't think it's going away completely.