Gartner claims punters are shunning laptops for Ipads

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Gartner has sounded the death knell for laptops by slashing its sales forecasts and claiming that the popularity of tablets will rise.

Gartner still predicts worldwide PC shipments will grow by 13.6 per cent in 2012 to 440.6 million units, but it revised this figure down from growth of 14.8 per cent. Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner claimed that the revision was due to weaker demand in China. However Atwal's colleague George Shiffler, another research director at Gartner, said the slump in growth was due to punters looking for alternatives to laptops.

In what sounded like a Steve Jobs sermon, Gartner said "PC's limitations are exposed" due to a lack of all day battery life. The outfit also cited the growth in social networking as a reason why laptops are "merely a transportable PC at best".

Gartner's battery life argument doesn't really hold water since, while most tablets have a battery life of around 10 hours, the latest crop of Sandy Bridge laptops fair well in battery life tests. Even Apple claims its high performing Macbook Pro laptop can manage seven hours, while some reviews have recorded eight hours while playing back videos.

It's not beyond the realm of possibility that manufacturers such as Lenovo and Dell could eek out even more battery life on their machines by using secondary batteries like dell Latitude D600 battery, dell Latitude D610 battery, dell 312-0068 battery, dell 6Y270 battery, dell C1295 battery, dell Inspiron 1100 battery, dell Inspiron 5100 battery, dell 6T473 battery, dell Inspiron 630m battery, and that's not even taking into account future low voltage versions of Sandy Bridge chips or AMD's upcoming APUs.

Gartner's reasoning for the laptop's demise might be iffy but there's no doubt that the tablet market will balloon over the next two years. With most laptop manufacturers showing off some sort of tablet device in the last six months, it's not clear how the surge in tablet demand will affect their bottom lines.

One thing is clear though, it is certainly more fashionable to be promoting the future success of tablets based on any reason, rather than defending more utilitarian, value-for-money laptops.