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PC Shipments Are Slowly Recovering
mrspoonsi sends this news from TechCrunch:
Over the past two years, the growing popularity of mobile devices has eaten into PC sales. A new report by Gartner, however, shows that shipments may continue to enjoy a very slow but steady uptick this year as tablet sales hit a peak. The research firm found that worldwide PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014 grew one percent year-over-year, the first increase since 2012. In the U.S., PC shipments increased 13.1 percent year-over-year, the fastest increase in four years, thanks to holiday purchases. Inexpensive laptops (about $200 to $300), thin and light notebooks, and laptops with a detachable screen helped drive growth. Lenovo continued to be the number one PC maker in terms of shipment volume, with a 19.4 percent marketshare.
Microsoft made 7 available again, reversing earlier decision not to sell it.
That was the result.
8 is still pretty much a consumer repellent.
Dropped an SSD in my 2011 quad i7 2.8ghz Macbook Pro, It is now as fast as the top of the line macbook pro you can buy right now. so I'll be not buying a new laptop for another 2-3 years.
Even with heavy programming, 3d rendering, and video editing, I don't saturate 4 i7 cores, the bottleneck was the hard drive and now it 's not.
Intel has not released ANYTHING that is worth upgrading to. I'm waiting for 8 core i7 processor with at least a 4ghz clock speed, bot nothing exists that is anything but a tiny fractional increase than the old one I'm running now.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Windows 8.1 is a result of the backlash against Win8. Subject the average user to Win8 and they will still manifest the same "abject fear" they always had. Microsoft just backtracked a little.
Even if that's that case, that is a *good* thing! That means MS is actually listening when customers vote with their wallets!
It's almost like they rediscovered the idea that you shouldn't treat your customer like sh*t.
Good! Now if only the Linux distro development community could pull it's collective head out of its collective ass and do the same we wouldn't have to put up with the steaming pile of systemd!