I think that our current idea of what a PC is in in its twilight, however. A co-worker bought a brand new Macbook which proceeded to self-destruct (it quite literally melted) 2 weeks after they purchased it. The Apple store turned around a new one in minutes, obviously, but I couldn't help think - in a year or two from now, all his apps would be storing their data through Apple's cloud. The hardware would be completely fungible in that case, and failure would be an almost non-event compared to how much hassle it is currently.