PC Purchases Plummeting Perilously
The Register has news on the overall PC purchases and shipping for the latest quarter and it is not wonderful. Indeed it hasn't been this bad since the 90's; thankfully...
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Podcast #685 – Core i9-13900K Tested Early, Bluetooth Audio Improving, PC and Game Sales Decline, Intel ARC 750 GPU, Steam everywhere + MORE!
We are back at it YET AGAIN, podcasting about another week's worth of PC hardware and software news. It's the kind of content you can only find in a few thousand other…
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Selling PCs Like It Was 2020
The IDC received quite an unpleasant surprise when they crunched the numbers for PC sales so far this year. Lenovo's sales were down 12.1%, HP down 27.6% , Dell dropped by…
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2021 Was A Great Year To Sell PCs, But Not To Buy Them
Gartner and IDC are both reporting that 2021 was a banner year for PC sales, one not seen since 2013 and up from last year by 10-15% depending on which source you…
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The Desktop Is So Dead Sales Went Up By 13% Over The Past 12 Months
The total sales of computers, including Apple, have increased by 13.2% over the past four quarters; a trend which has been going on about the same time that Windows 10 started to…
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The Year Of The Desktop Computer?
The volume of laptop and desktop sales predicted for this year are higher than they have been in over a decade, while at the same time shortages are predicted to continue to…
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PC Shipments Up 26.1%, Obviously The PC Is Still Dead
Sure, it is hard to locate enthusiast parts at the moment, but that has not slowed the sales of laptops, desktops or workstations this year. For the first time in a decade…
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PC Sales Slump As The Supply Chain Goes Slack
It comes as no surprise that all major computer suppliers have seen a downturn in shipments and sales the first quarter of 2020 but it is interesting to see the actual numbers. …
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Goodbye Win7, Hello New PC! Computer Sales Up For The First Time In Seven Years
It depends on which set of numbers you prefer as to how large an increase it was but both companies agree there was growth. According to Gartner the market shipped 261.23…
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The PC industry is still dead; ignore the sales figures suggesting otherwise!
For the first time since 2012, both IDC and Gartner agree the market for plug and play PCs are up, with a growth of 2.7%. As there has not been any huge…
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You must be reading this on a phone, seeing as how PCs are dead
Once again the death knell is ringing in the peanut gallery as they claim that the demise of the PC is nigh ... still. What the data The Inquirer references...
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Microsoft’s guide on how not to to win friends and influence people
IDC is predicting a drop in PC sales this year and put the majority of the blame on Microsoft and it's new OS. The free upgrade has not driven PC sales higher…
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Another hard quarter for PC sellers
73.7 million units, including desktops, laptops and ultrabooks were sold in the third quarter of 2015, down 7.7% from this time last year. In the EMEA, Japan and Latin America this could…
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That free OS upgrade doesn’t seem to have helped sales of new PCs
It may seem obvious to most that giving away a free upgrade is not going to positively effect sales but apparently not so to market analysts who seem to have assumed the…
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XP has helped slow the decline of PC sales
With a total of 76.6 million PCs shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2014 the desktop market only shrunk by 1.7% compared to the first quarter of 2013. Gartner attributes this…
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Traditional PC shipments continue their steep decline
The PC market has eroded over the past few years to the point where sales are only slightly above what they were in 2008, roughly 300 million sales. Even more worrisome for…
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More on the dearth of the PC
DigiTimes offers up more detailed information on the decline of PC sales globally, dropping over the past five consecutive quarters in almost every market. They refute the idea that Win8...
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The continuing decline in desktop sales
For the fifth quarter in a row, traditional desktops and laptop have seen a decline in sales globally. This mostly represents a shift in purchasing habits as opposed to an actual decline…
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