Can Dell and HP Keep Pace With An Asia-Centric PC World?

MojoKid writes "If you've paid any attention to the PC industry in the past few years, you're aware that things aren't as rosy as they used to be. After decades of annual growth, major manufacturers like HP and Dell have both either floated the idea of exiting the consumer space (HP) or gone private (Dell). Contrast that with steady growth at companies like Asus and Lenovo, and some analysts think the entire PC industry could move to Asia in the next few years. The ironic part of the observation is that in many ways, this has already happened. Asia-Pacific manufacturers are more focused on the consumer electronics market and better able to cope with low margins thanks to rapid adoption and huge potential customer bases. Apple has proven that high margin hardware can be extremely profitable, but none of the PC OEMs have been willing to risk the R&D costs or carry new products for a significant period of time while they adapt designs and improve market share."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Ubuntu £inux has fundamentally changed the game, forever. Soon the entire PC industry will be chucking out crappy low end PCs running Unity and unable to play any of the games I bought. I just got Aliens: Colonial Marines and it won't even play on Ubuntu, how can anyone use such a terrible product? Ubuntu was running on netbooks from dell but even the crappy dell company stopped selling those because Linux sucks so much for gaming.

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[Anonymous Coward]

linux sucks for pretty much everything except servers.

Any neckbeard using linux for desktop use has ego problems and is unwilling for his lordship to use a real productive desktop like windows or even osx. Instead they while away the hours mucking around with dependencies and half assed broken-source software poorly trying to imitate real functional windows software where even the original developer has long abandoned the sinking husk of a project.

But I guess this isn't really an issue because the average linux desktop user has little productive work to do but masturbate to cartoon ponies while leeching off their parents retirement money.