This is it: 2013 is the year that tablets surpass notebooks in sales and assume their rightful place atop the mobile computing gadget throne. Don’t start playing “Taps” for the notebooks just yet, though—they’re not really going anywhere.

NPD DisplaySearch released new data this week projecting that more tablets will ship in 2013 than notebook PCs. “Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship,” said a DisplaySearch blog post.

Numbers are a funny thing, though. There are so many ways to look at them, and it’s easy to lose the details in the big picture, or to lose the big picture by cherry-picking specific details. If you look more closely, you can see that tablets are, in fact, a threat to notebook PCs…but that’s not the whole picture

Why tablets are a threat to notebooks

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