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Thread ID: 136019	2014-01-09 22:43:00	Volvo Up, Rolls Royce Up, PC sales down	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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1364805	2014-01-09 22:43:00	In the Herlad today Three seprate articles. Vlco car slaes up on last year (mainly due to China) Rolls Royce sales up on la st year (main due to increased saels in China) PC sales down for the 7th quarter in a row. www.nzherald.co.nz Due it said to a move to hand controlled devices. I wonder if they factor in motherboard sales ? As my last PC purchase was about 15 years ago. But in that time I have bought 4 or 5 motherboards just for my own use.	Digby (677)
1364806	2014-01-10 00:22:00	I know that I have spent money on PCs in the recent past but I have spent nothing on Rolls-Royces. Are all them old PC parts being recycled to make Rolls-Royces?	Bobh (5192)
1364807	2014-01-10 00:51:00	I I wonder if they factor in motherboard sales ? As my last PC purchase was about 15 years ago. But in that time I have bought 4 or 5 motherboards just for my own use. Motherboards by themselves don't count because they are components. What they do over look though is that hand held devices are actually personal computers.	Webdevguy (17166)
1364808	2014-01-10 02:47:00	Apparently Dell are also feeling the heat in the race to the bottom as they desperately try to flog of those cheap nasty desktop PCs that no one wants. www.theregister.co.uk	Webdevguy (17166)
1364809	2014-01-10 04:25:00	Our last computer was from 1992. The last motherboard "component" was 5yrs ago. It does all I need. For the avg punter, why sit at the desk and do FB and browse the web and chat ... Won't surprise me laptops are on the way down too ...	Nomad (952)
1364810	2014-01-11 00:03:00	Mac sales are up though. www.gartner.com	Cato (6936)
1364811	2014-01-11 00:39:00	Mac sales are up though. www.gartner.com Those charts are very hard to understand as only one of them mentions Apple sales. But yes they were up in the USA.	Digby (677)
1364812	2014-01-11 06:52:00	It's a mistake to assume that the average joe out there is building their own computers. 99% of the folks out there are utterly clueless to the possibility of a DIY build, and that 99% is the majority that is making the swing to mobile computing. The majority of users only want social messaging/communication, internet (mostly for purchasing), and low quality media, and all that can be had on a cellphone or tablet. This same 99% are clueless regards data storage and file types. The power and sophistication to be had from a Desktop is wasted on these folk. If it wasn't for high end gaming and business apps (few of which need much computing power) there'd be little remaining call for a PC at all. Computers used to be the relm of the savvy, the nerds. Now they've dumbed down and shut down the OS on mobile devices to the degree that there's little appeal to the traditional nerds, but the limited functionality that the nerds hate actually make the low-end users feel more confident at using the devices... and there lies the mass market, in the dumb users who only want to upload their latest 'look at me here' type pic onto Facebook.	Paul.Cov (425)
1364813	2014-01-11 07:55:00	^2x. Statistically people would just purchase a system than DIY. Brick and mortar shop or online (Dell, Apple etc). It would be interesting to know how many those who don't have PCs (laptops) or who have replaced them with tablets and how many of those have simply supplemented their computer with a tablet or other device. We have a 2003 computer and it is fine, one even supports 1Gbps ethernet, runs an OS (XP), gets online etc. Just doesn't play vids that smoothly and doesn't support 1080 but my 8yr old laptop does it fine. Even for myself, I just don't do gaming and other geeky stuff. You can put me and other IT professionals/geeks on the same boat too (that I know), we're on FB. Smartphones have certainly revolutionalised my way of computing.	Nomad (952)
1364814	2014-01-11 18:20:00	Mac sales are up though. Its like housing companies, the red shed and similar- buy cheap(and expensive) and nasty??? We all like style.... supposedly.	notechyet (4479)
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