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PC Sales Strong In Stores

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-can-buy-them-in-stores dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Notebooks and Desktops are both staying strong in brick-and-mortar sales, according to C|Net. While laptops have mostly fueled the market these last few years, Desktops actually had a little bit of a comeback." From the article: "The first quarter is always a bit slower than the fourth, when holiday shoppers often drive PC and chip companies to their strongest results of the year. This year, the drop from fourth quarter to first was a little more pronounced, echoing Intel's warning in March that earnings would fall short of expectations. But when compared with the first quarter of last year, PC shipments were up 28 percent, versus growth of 19.4 percent recorded during last year's first quarter."

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  1. Vista, Vista, Vista by rmdir+-r+* · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From TFA:
    The market looks pretty good for PC vendors through the third quarter, after which the effects of Microsoft's decision to delay the launch of Vista will be determined, Baker said. Some analysts feel the overall impact of the delay will be muted, but others are worried.
    Honestly, I don't think it'll have any impact at all. Why? Because hardly anyone cares about Vista.

    Those who run corporate IT departments have no interest at all in a new OS, not while their various lockdown tools won't work on it. Consumers, by and large, don't give a damn because a) most don't understand what an operating system is and b) most haven't heard of Vista.

    Microsoft has yet to start a real advertising blitz for Vista- though if they did, you'd probably see a decline in PC sales.

    This whole article is really just a big nothing- people are still buying computers! The specs on these computers are better! The status quo has not changed very much!

  2. Re:But why would people want desktops? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simple answer:

    The graphics cards in notebooks suck compared to those in desktops. And to top it off, graphic cards aren't exactly easy to upgrade in most notebooks.

    Sticking a new $125 graphics card into a desktop after a couple years can make a pretty big difference in 3D gaming.