Data points from the PC supply chain have been decidedly sub-seasonal.

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And also to highlight some of the brightest points in the history of PC gaming, since we seem to be talking a lot about the Wii U at the moment.

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Developing games for a uniform system is a huge advantage over the PC market with its wildly diverse array of price and power points.

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But he points out that tablets will likely shake up the PC market faster than netbooks did because this time a larger, more influential manufacturer (Apple) holds sway and the device in question (the iPad) is widely viewed as superior to regular PCs.

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That said, he points out that both Dell and HP last month reported July quarter PC unit shipments down 10% year over year.

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To install on the Windows 8 PC, I used a product key given to me by Microsoft for pre-release testing, otherwise you would have to go to Office.com to buy a subscription and get a product key. (A free 30-day trial is available.) The Windows 8 PC install took about 20 minutes, and a helpful introduction walked me through key points of Office 365.

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During the second quarter, Lenovo grew its number-one position in China, the world's largest PC market, to a leading market share of 34 percent, up 2.4 points year-over-year.

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He points to data from Gartner Research that predicts sales of 1.4 billion post-PC devices (a category that he construes as including the Chromebook) by 2015 compared with 540 million traditional PCs.

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As ZDNET correctly points out, those were 3 acquisitions that have failed to gain traction in a post-PC, tablet-driven market.

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