Well the OP's alias really says it all for this thread. Meg Whitman is an excellent CEO. She will do very well in that position and fear mongering over a potential failure of leadership won't get anyone anywhere. She'll easily last more than 4 years, and very well could revolutionize HP. Even as a fresh face to hardware, a brand like HP can always use external input, and now that that external input is internal there will be details she knows that the former CEO's probably didn't think to implement.
Right on the money. I think a huge paradigm shift is upon us in the pc arena. The cloud, 4G, tablet, iphone this trend is so big it's like that 4th round Mayweather punch. Lights out if they don't see it coming... ...and they probably don't.