Technology experts predict that desktops will become passe within the next half decade or so. One projection claims that desktop will make up only 18% of the PC market by 2015 and thus over 80% of our computers will be portable. (For the sake of comparison, desktops made up 45% of the computer market in 2008.) For the majority of the past twenty or so years, since personal computers became a stronghold in most American households, we have associated desktops, not laptops, with ease-of-use and senior friendliness. However, the end of the desktop isn't necessarily a bad thing for seniors. The decline of desktops has more to do with the impressive evolution of laptops than anything else. Within recent years, laptops have become equipped with certain features -- large screens, more power, excess storage space, easy to use keyboards and mice. Features that were once hard to find (or too pricey) with laptops have now become part of the standard package. The advantages that desktops once had are now being erased. Factor in portability, lightweight design, as well as ease of set up and it is no wonder that laptops have more or less "won the war." We are not suggesting that desktops are bad for seniors, or anyone else for that matter. It's just that seniors shouldn't necessarily mourn the loss of the desktop, as the laptop is a perfectly fine, if not better, substitute. Flight of the Desktops: Soon there will be no reason to have a big, boxy computer on your desk- (Slate)