Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future?

jfruhlinger writes "Upgrading your desktop PC's video card was once a rite of passage for many Slashdot readers — and could also be a gateway to building your own computer from the motherboard up. And more often than not, you bought the components from Newegg. But the tablets and ultrathin laptops that are today's hot sellers don't let you so much as swap in more RAM. What's a component retailer to do in world without user-serviceable components?"

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Re:newegg should be ok

[hawguy]

tables suck ass for content creation

Are you kidding? Tables have been used for hundreds, if not thousands of years for content creation, and even ultrathin tablets won't replace them

http://stores.paulsplaceonline.com/Detail.bok?no=389
http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/books_writing_such/the_codex_climaci_rescriptus/

If anything, a table makes a tablet more useful:

http://www.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/laptops/2001tablets1.jpg

Furthermore, tablets have been around for thousands of years, and they still haven't replaced tables:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhmim_wooden_tablets

Re:wasd + mouse

[ArhcAngel]

I said that's why I bought it. I didn't say I was successful. ;)