PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com)

PC shipments are at the lowest levels since 2007. From a report: Gartner said this week that the PC market declined 4.3 percent during the second quarter. The research company said that shipments were at the "lowest quarter volume since 2007," noting the market dropped for the 11th quarter in a row. The report is in stark contrast to another from IDC in April which said that the PC market grew for the first time in five years. Gartner said HP has the largest global market share with 20.8 percent of the market. HP is trailed by Lenovo which has a 19.9 percent share, with shipments down a substantial 8.4 percent since last year. Dell, Apple and Asus finish out the top five players. In the U.S., Gartner suggests Apple's shipments were down 9.6 percent from last year. The research firm didn't give an explanation for why that might have occurred, though Apple was late to refresh its computers with the latest Intel processors. Upgraded Macs just hit the market last month.

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No longer a home appliance

[Tablizer]

PC's are alive and well in business, but shrinking at home. They are too expensive and too much trouble to maintain for consumers, in part because Windows is a POC.

The younger generation can type on virtual (mobile) keyboards as fast as most PC typers such that they don't need a PC for email etc.; and tablets can have plug-in keyboards.

Re:Frost piss.

[Dutch Gun]

Not really. It's just that the average person really doesn't need the equivalent of a 1980's supercomputer sitting on their desk for reading e-mail and surfing the web. It used to be that you required a PC to do anything related to computing, and that's just not the case anymore. I was talking to my parents the other day, and told them that when they were ready for their next computer, they should probably just get a simple tablet and hook up a keyboard to it. Anything more for them is just unnecessary overkill, and does more harm than good. They're in their 70's, and are intimidated by technology, so the simple capabilities of a tablet seem best for them.

Personally, I'm running a 6 year old PC as my main development machine. It was a high-quality PC at the time, costing over $4K. GPU is outdated (I opted for quiet operation rather than the most power), but since my own game isn't really pushing any hardware limits to speak of, that's fine. It's still as snappy as ever. I'll honestly don't even know when I'll consider upgrading, so long as it keeps running.