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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Tablets aren't killing personal computers yet, but they're making consumers think twice before buying a laptop.

Tech consultancy Gartner on Thursday lowered its PC shipment forecast for 2011 and 2012. The company said soaring tablet sales will result in far fewer notebook and netbook sales over the next two years than it initially expected.

With desktop PC sales flat-lining since 2006, laptops and netbooks have been sustaining the growth in the PC market over the past five years. But with the popularization of cloud computing services like Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) Docs, Flickr and Facebook, a growing number of daily activities can be carried out on a tablet without a full PC operating system.

Tablets are also thinner, lighter, more portable and carry longer battery life than laptops. Apple's iPad 2, unveiled Wednesday, weighs just 1.3 pounds, has a battery that lasts for 10 hours, and it is less than a centimeter thick.

But it's not just the iPad that has consumers excited. There are a full 102 tablets that are either on the market or coming soon. As consumers consider their tablet options, many are taking a wait-and-see approach towards buying a new PC.

Business customers -- who are in the midst of a hardware refresh cycle -- are expected to continue buying new PCs, but even corporations are beginning to consider tablets are legitimate alternatives to PCs. Gartner expects some businesses to delay their PC replacements and instead hand out tablets to their workforce.

Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500), for instance, has noted that the iPad is generating strong crossover interest from business customers. Around 80% of Fortune 100 companies have deployed the tablet for their employees.

COMMENT:

So as you can see the Ipads are getting more slaes than laptops, and making that prices are falling, falling sales and possibly bankrupting.