Will we one day be no more likely to buy a computer than to buy a mobile phone? I guess most consumers use them mainly for network tasks now anyway, so it makes sense. Microsoft may need to be worried; business people making decisions about what hardware to offer the public are likely to be more interested in how much they have to pay to tick the browser, email and office applications boxes than whether or not Windows is involved.

Do you get to keep the laptop at the end of the contract? Or even better do you get punted an upgrade model by Customer Services?? :-)

give me a laptop that i can put in my pocket...

phones are getting qwerty keyboards and running PDA style operating systems, those types of phones will likely replace the current style phones, but devices of that sort of small size will always be around - bigger devices just aren't as convenient for the average user to carry around with them as they go shopping

To use when you are out of the UK?