PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History

An anonymous reader writes "The PC market continues to be in free fall, having now seen its seventh consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 82.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Gartner, a 6.9 percent decrease from the same period last year. It's worth emphasizing that this past quarter resulted in a total of 315.9 million units shipped in 2013, a 10 percent decline from 2012, and the worst decline in PC market history. The overall shipment level was equal to the one in 2009."

Comments

Re:Current PCs are good enough.

[0123456]

And then some people just don't like Win 8.

You've actually met someone who does like Window 8?

Everyone I know who's seen it takes one look, goes 'WTF?' and decides not to buy a new PC after all.

Re:Current PCs are good enough.

[Peristaltic]

It's Microsoft's fault. They won't allow the makers to sell you a PC without a tablet OS.

I'm sure that's a significant factor. I wonder how the makers feel about that.

Look no further "Samsung is blaming Windows 8 for its poor performance in the PC market and the overall decline of the industry as a whole."

Re:Custom Builds

[Billly Gates]

Custom built PCs are a niche market. I highly doubt they would have anything near a 10% impact on the entire PC market.

Not anymore. Asus mentioned they have sold millions of high end/gaming motherboards as gamers no longer buy Dells and replace the GPU like they did in the old days.

You can thank crappy PSU's and proprietary tiny cases for this decline as gamers are the only ones who upgrade besides corporations and they only do so every 10 years now when MS decides it needs more money for another OS upgrade.