(+) The Future of Personal Computers for Genealogy and Everything Else

Please look at the computer you are using right now to read this article. Is it a large, beige-colored box sitting on your desk with a separate monitor on top? If so, you are using very old technology. The idea of a computer box on your desk with a separate monitor and keyboard has been with us since the early 1980s. In computer years, that's a century or more!

In fact, the definition of a home computer—or perhaps I should say a "personal computer"—is changing. I suspect many people are reading this article on their iPads, iPhones, Android tablets or phones, or perhaps on a 2-pound "netbook" or Chromebook laptop computer or something similar. If you are one of those reading this article on a non-desktop computer, you have already joined the revolution.