For some very, very, very small percentage of the population, that extra power can be useful - but I strongly suspect that, outside of gamers, that percentage i

For some very, very, very small percentage of the population, that extra power can be useful - but I strongly suspect that, outside of gamers, that percentage is less than 10%. For most people, PCs and Laptops became powerful enough about 5 years ago. I am a serious power user, run VMware, Cisco Network Simulators, Multiple Drawing Applications, Aperture, the entire Office Suite, VPNs, plus the normal host of twitter, text editor, skype, google earth apps, iTunes - all simultaneously - and my 2010 MacBook Air is still sufficient . I'm still doing all my Desktop PC work (Mostly Outlook and Visio) on my 2004 Dell Precision 650 (All that I've upgraded is the SSD and Monitor). The Laptop and PC market is wildly over served today for 90%+ of the population. A MacBook Air is way more powerful than people need in terms of Processor, Wireless, and CPU performance for those people. Yes - of course you will be able to take advantage of more powerful systems, but if we've already reached the point where I can't, then it won't be too far off before Phones/Tablets will have more than enough processing power for most ordinary people.