New projections by NPD DisplaySearch (a display chain consulting firm) indicate that more tablet PCs will be sold by 2016 than notebook PCs. This announcement was immediately picked up by eWeek, PC Magazine, VentureBeat and others. Increasing sales of tablets is good news for mobile computing fans. The underlying premise of the "tablet vs. notebook" sales comparison is faulty, however: tablets as we know them are not on par with notebooks (so please stop suggesting that they should be compared apples-to-apples...)