Although tales of tablets replacing personal computers have essentially evaporated, computer makers should pin what hope they can muster for growth on the tablet’s close cousins, 2-in-1 devices and convertible notebooks, a Gartner analyst said today.

A Gartner-conducted survey of 19,000 consumers in the U.S., Brazil, China, France, India and the U.K. found that just 2% of those planning to replace a desktop PC in the next 12 months would pick up a tablet instead of another personal computer, sticking a fork in the idea that slates would crush traditional computers. Laptop owners were slightly more likely to do so, but even among them, only 4% claimed they would ditch their current system for a tablet.

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