I needed to pop into Best Buy a few days ago to buy printer ink and as I passed the computer section I was taken aback by what I saw. There were no desktop computers to be seen! The area which USED to be filled with PC desktops was now populated with tablets, netbooks and iMac-like PCs. I had to hunt, in disbelief, for desktops which were stashed away on one shelf near the in/out door for the Employees. I counted six total just sitting there in the back.

I had read a few months ago that tablet sales were way up and desktop sales dropped around 30%. Well now, before your very eyes, you can see the dominance of Tablets now. The Cloud (dropbox, google docs and now iCloud) is now a reality and it seems that most people used desktops for email and surfing – things mobile devices like tablets do best.

It really is something I’ve said about my iPhone – that it’s pretty much a computer with a phone… and now that I’ve got my second iPad (iPad 2) I feel the same way. The apps are getting more and more powerful and soon the new iOS will be out and aimed at utilizing Cloud and network technology more securely and effectively.

Well desktops, it’s been fun and we thank you for your service… now we can clear our desks, make more space for action figures.

from Techburrito Executive Editor, Alan Natale

Google is all about search, we all know that. So as they try to invent new things like Google Googles (see my post), they also continue to perfect their central function- search. With Google Instant you get search results as you even type in each letter of the search word(s) – “good guesses on the fly” is what it’s doing in a nutshell. It’s like when your talking and your pal’s trying to finish your sentence (but in a helpful way, not so much annoying).

If you go to Google’s write up about Google Instant, you’ll read (and see/hear with their video) that they are just trying to do things much faster for you. I have to wonder, though, how fast do we need to go when looking something up? Generally speaking, Google is pretty quick feeding up search results already but I guess we need the results to come up even faster (shrug). Well looks like it’s time for some Google Instant search competitions, fastest to look up “carpel tunnel” wins!

by Techburrito Executive Editor, Alan Natale

The gap between TV and Internet just got way smaller thanks to the race between Google and Apple. The behemoths have just hastened the race to bring smooth and quick integration so that we need not have our television watching be a separate activity from our web surfing. Interactivity is what makes all the difference so leave it to the tech giants to bolt out in front of the slow moving cable companies and the treading-water consoles like Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft’s XBox.

I’ve had interactivity on my Samsung plasma for about two years thanks to my Sony PS3 but admittedly the experience has been wonky at best; the PS3′s internet browser, like Apple’s mobile devices, didn’t allow Flash so that was a downer. Also, for some reason, the internet was shoved through the PS3′s browser of sorts and that made things slower and a bit unwieldy. I have to say, though, that I love streaming Netflix content on my PS3 though it’s kind of silly I have to use a Netflix DVD popped into the player anytime I want to stream on the internet. How dare they make me get off my couch to stream movies!!!

Google is really going for everything these days- they tried to outwit Twitter with Google Buzz (wah- wah), if you recall they built a YouTube video hosting thing to rival the Tube but then just purchased YouTube to settle that, they set-up Skype-like free video chat/audio chat/chat/actual phone calls now in gmail, they are supposed to be launching an Apple iTunes killer by Christmas and we have here Google TV to try to clobber Steve’s Job’s brand new $99 Apple TV. Yes, all these choices gives me a headache… but it’s great to have choices and the fact that my prediction that the TV and the Internet will become one is coming true (yes, my prediction though this prediction is kind of obvious for most I admit).

Well I say more power to you Google (please give me some stock)- and I look forward to watching TV with a keyboard instead of a remote AND I cannot wait until we have Google Robots to clean my house and do yardwork so keep up the good work!