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Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com)
According to the latest numbers provided by marketing research firm Canalys, the shipments of PC devices -- which includes desktops, notebooks, all-in-ones, two-in-ones, and tablets -- amounted to 101 million units in the first quarter of 2016. The number underscores a 13% decline from the same period a year ago, and it is also the lowest volume since the second quarter of 2011. Apple led the chart among PC OEMs, moving 14 million units (suffering 17% fall), followed by Chinese conglomerate Lenovo. HP assumed the third position, with Dell and Samsung closely following it. Tim Coulling, Canalys Senior Analyst said in a press statement: The global PC market had a bad start to 2016 and it is difficult to see any bright spots for vendors in the coming quarters. The tablet boom has faded in the distance and the market is fully mature. Global shipments declines are expected to continue unless vendors bring transformational innovation to the market. Apple and Microsoft are propping up shipments in established markets with their detachables, but price points make them less affordable in low-income countries. Although other vendors are coming to market with cheaper alternatives, they are unlikely to have a big impact on volumes in the short term. The number of people looking to buy their first PC is at an all-time low and 2016 is likely to bring yet more turmoil to global PC vendors.
While you make a good point about the tracking in Windows 10, even the summary states that while Apple sold more units, they also had a bigger decline in sales than the industry as a whole, so you can't chalk this up to Microsoft fear/hate.
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Some official statistics may look decent, but the labor-force participation (a figure not prone to fudging like politically redefined unemployment) is the lowest it has been since 1978.
With over 94 million not even looking for work — and thus not included in the unemployment statistics — we can afford less and less non-necessities.
With the constantly rising food-prices and the incomes of those still working stalling, expect further declines.
Socialism — measured as the part of the GDP spent by government — sucks.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Doing this naively is going to fail. Assuming this is a full retail version, because technically you're not allowed to do what you want on a OEM or SystemBuilder version. "Techncially". So I am assuming a full retail version of 7.
What you want is using sysprep to generalize your system before moving the disk/image:
sysprep.exe /generalize /shutdown
When it's done with that, image and/or move the disk. You *will* have to activate.
Good luck
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Last summer I refurbished a small manufacturer in the agricultural space (mainly for my own sanity). We tried to buy new and failed.
It was a Windows shop with many legacy XP systems scattered about on the production floor (some used maybe once per month depending on product mix out the door). Not a single long-term employee expressed any love for Windows, so we had buy-in to replace everything on the white collar side with Mac Minis, after one of the employees brought in his own quad-core mini with 16 GB RAM to show off.
Then we went to the Apple store and discovered that in the soldered RAM era, the price point we had approved covered a dual core system with 8 GB of RAM soldered in. By the time we scaled it up to be comparable to the Mini from two years earlier, it became 50% more expensive. Because of the Windows legacy, we expected fairly heavy use of virtualization, making 8 GB a very low ceiling into the near future.
And then the answer came back at the new value point: well, fuck it, we're already getting an armload of HP refurbs for the manufacturing floor, let's just get more refurbished Windows 7 boxes for the office staff, too.
More teeth, smaller apple. Funny how you can now see Apple shrinking all the way from the stock exchange.
I still use my MacBook Pro Mid-2012. Because it was not upgradable I purchased it with at the time 768GB of Solid State Disk, 16GB of Ram, and the higher end graphics options. It still runs El Capitan really well, and aside from generational CPU differences, there is nothing that makes me look at a 2015 MacBook Pro and makes me think it's worth me parting with $2500. There isn't the ability to add more ram that 16GB (which I use primarily for running various VMs I work on to develop), more internal storage (which is leaps and bounds more than 640k, which honestly should be enough for any body), and has the same display and form factor as the current one does. The battery has recently asked to be serviced, and it came in at 5:30 hours of Netflix at full display, still enough for me since I have multiple chargers and Displays as docks. There is nothing today that makes me think I want a newer one.
What I would like to see is a MacBook Pro that has thunderbolt 3, a 4K display, MAYBE MAYBE a keyboard from the new MacBook, which I have tried but I'm still undecided on, and an A10 or A11 coprocessor for running apps on a low power mode sparing the big hunking desktop-class skylake CPU. 64GB of ram as a max would be nice, as would 2TB SSDs. I don't need it thinner, as I can comfortably tote this one around now as is. Just give me as much battery as can be.