Will desktop computers be obsolete in the near future?

With technology advancing and laptops getting better and better, do you think desktop computers become obsolete in the not-to-distant future?

Will desktop computers be obsolete in the near future?viruses

I think so. Eventually the price and performance difference between laptops and desktops will be so small, no one will want a desktop anymore. Unless of course businesses and schools maybe, since they're harder to steal.

I remember a few years back when a laptop cost at least $3000, and came with only a third of the performance of a desktop of the same price. Now you can spend $2000 on a laptop and have it beat almost any desktop up to around $1500. Eventually heat will not be a problem, battery life will be much longer, and more durable.

I also remember LCDs when they first came out. Early ones were crap, no one wanted them. They had bad resolutions, blurred, left ghosts, and were expencive. Now a LCD can match a CRT almost perfectly, better in some ways, and are the same price.

Will desktop computers be obsolete in the near future?antispam

hope not
Each serve a purpose and niether will totally replace the other.
DESKTOPS NEVER
Would you like to carry a 32" LCD around?
yes, at least I think so. I will be a thing in the past.
Desktops definilty could become obsolete and they definitely could not as well. It is all going to depend on what breakthroughs in computers come out next. I don't think they will right off, more so for the next 15-20 years unless theres a major breakthrough in new chip design with different semiconductors other than silicon, all your going to see without becoming too technical is laptop computers with multiple processor cores because we are at the limits of what silicon chips can go for speed, reliable that is. The only real thing that could kill desktops in the short term is if there are standards for laptops like there are for desktops. If someday you can build your own 500 dollar laptop from scratch picking all the parts yourself, like you can with desktops then there will certainly be a threat to desktops. Plus there is only so much you can squeeze into a laptop for computer parts without it becoming more of computer that dell is now retailing which is basically a mix of a full desktop and laptop.