Its been a few years since notebook sales surpassed desktop sales, but a weekend visit to the local Staples store shows how far this trend has gone: On display were 15 laptops, 3 netbooks, 1 tablet, and off to the side, on a lower shelf, were 3 desktop PCs.
Two years ago, eweek asked "Is the desktop dead for SMBs?" We're still seeing a lot of new desktop requests from our small business clients (probably around half of new systems), but it looks like retailers for small business like Stables are shifting more quickly.