Smartphones and tablets were supposed to kill the PC, starting with the static, unnecessary desktop and moving onward to the battery-deficient and cumbersome laptop. Of course, we know that didn’t happen. Laptops now morph into tablets, the battery life improved, and our smartphones now exist as just another notch — albeit an ultra-portable and increasingly more powerful one — in the greater computing continuum. The post-PC era never happened because we refused to stop using the PC.

At CES, it’s become clear that not only are laptops alive and well, but the desktop is back with a vengeance. In particular, the all-in-one is seeing a kind of creative renaissance wherein once-boring hardware…

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