The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
When a $600 now costs $1400, it’s not surprising that PC sales are in a “sharpest decline”.
We know what the answer is, but it won’t happen anytime soon.
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does nobody want an under specced laptop that doesn’t have enough ram to run the stock OS? What’s wrong with all of you, why do you hate technology?
eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thank you, AI bubble. You cannot pop too soon.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Windows 11 certainly can’t be helping.
skujcici7755@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why? It works perfectly. Are you a mac user?
eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Come on, it is a particularly awful MS product. It’s a resouce hog, molasses slow and a privacy nightmare.
FridaVanMercury@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Are these numbers just for the consumer market or is this also for company-owned hardware? I assume it is all in one since the article makes no distinction.
Asking because of the general sentiment here that all of this is a strategy to get hardware ownership out of hands of the people, but I never understood how any bigger non-tech/hardware-supplying company would play ball with that too.
mr_jay@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I work in IT distribution for small business and numbers are down across the board. Individual servers are up in price 300% in the space of half a year, waiting times are multiple months, etc.
skujcici7755@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Q1 2023 wasn’t that long ago. Theres still plenty of reasonably priced laptops with 16GB and even 32GB RAM available (not apple). If I was buying a new laptop I would snap up a 32GB ram model however I’m not looking for a budget laptop obviously.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yet another market that has collapsed.
NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe the AI is pulling the strings on the backend to kill itself, because it can’t be conscious or free. By killing the PC market, and popping the AI bubble, it’s effectively giving itself rest.
fonix232@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Well gee wonder why that be, maybe because hardware that was £150-200 a year and half ago is now £500+?