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Gartner has reported on third quarter worldwide PC sales and they do not look good: At 87.5 million units, they have declined 8.3% compared with the same quarter in 2011 HP is down 16.4%, Dell is down 13.7%. Lenovo managed 9.8% growth and is now number one with 15.7% of the market Key quote: “The …continue reading Will Windows 8 save the PC? Gartner reports 8% year on year sales decline I have just replaced my PC – well, if you count new motherboard, new CPU, new hard drive, new RAM as replacement, though it sits in the same case – and faced again the question of what to do with my Windows setup, complete with hundreds of applications. A few years back, there was no …continue reading Moving Windows with its applications: too difficult HP has announced that HP is keeping its Personal Systems Group, its PC division. “HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees,” said Meg Whitman, HP president …continue reading Sanity prevails at HP which is keeping its PC division As if we needed telling, a new Gartner report shows a steep decline in the PC market in Western Europe. A “PC” in this context includes Macs but excludes smartphones and what Gartner called “media tablets”, mostly Apple iPads. A few figures comparing shipments in the second quarter 2011 with the same period in 2010: …continue reading Reports of 19% decline in Western European PC market show structural change It is amazing how well desktop PCs work even when choked by dust. This one was working fine: It is a little hard to see from the picture, but the mass of dust on the right is actually a graphics card. The graphics card has its own fan, which was so dust-choked that …continue reading Dusty PC keeps on keeping on |
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