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Do Europeans Buy Computers In A Depression???
As my readers now, I have been declaring recessions and depressions in Europe for some time now, to wit:
- It's Official & As I Foretold Years Ago, Greece Is Now In A True Depression As Reality Hits Greek Banks
- Greece Sneezes, The Euro Dies of Pneumonia! Yeah, Sounds Bombastic, Yet True!
- As the Sell Side and MSM Sing The Praises of European Insurer "Street Cred" and
- When (Not If) Germany Slows, The Whole House Of Cards Collapses!!!
Now there is corroboratig anecdotal evidence coming out of the woodwork: Gartner reports Western Europe desktop shipments down in Q2 2012
Gartner reports Western Europe desktop shipments down, portable PCs up in Q2 2012
As reported by Endgadget:
When it comes to technology and the end of a financial quarter, you can bet your wage there'll be ananalyst report or two letting you what's what. And according to Gartner's latest estimates for Western Europe, PCs didn't fare too well in Q2 of this year, with a 2.4 percent decrease in shipments compared with the same period in 2011.
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I just bought three of them for the heck of it, as a hedge against the carshing euro.
Dude, You're not gettin' a Dell...
Don't really know under which heading PC component sales come up, but i equally supported AMD/ATI (Bulldozer) and Intel/NVIDIA (i7 Xeon) alliances in the purchase. Just in case one of those companies shoots itself in the foot.
er, why not switch to Apple whose history is one of cool uber-reliability rather than the risk of 2 chips with 1 mega garbage software platform from Microshite?
i'm just sayin spreading risk between 2 chips are the least of your worries running on Gates & Bulmers garbage, the Trabbant of IT history
cheap hardware and either Linux or BSD works quite well and it's not only cheap but very reliable.
Hey! The Trabant is one cool fucking machine.
I don't know where you have been the better half of
Steve Jobs life, but i heard financing and hardware had something to do with the Microsoft and Intel Cos...and yes,
maybe its prissy by Mr. Cook not to sell his Operating System to other people.
Reggie... I love you like a brother but it would be good to include sales of tablets. They are cutting into desktop sales, even laptop sales. When Microsoft's Window 8 tablets come out this October they will integrate better into businesses than I-Pads. I don't favor any of these brands over the others but tablets which are actually computers are going sell like hotcakes!
P.S. Cloud computing sucks for security, even the Woz says so. That won't keep the sheep from buying in but just say'n.
Nothing, up to and including bankruptcy, will keep the sheep from buying into the latest hyped tech crap. Security is a non-issue to the average user, they don't - I would venture to say can't - even understand what it means let alone how it works. As long as the salesman makes enough reassuring but vague/noncommittal/absurd statements, the crap will sell.
Cuz computer hardware hardly depreciates over time ;)
PC hardware can be reinvigorated by switching to the Linux operating system at no charge try ubuntu.com. Monopolistic practices by the duo of Intel/Microsoft and corporate propoganda campaigns no longer work to flood the market with upgrades with the latest features. Microsoft Office can be replaced with OpenOffice at no charge to the end user. In a consumer delevering environment, look to linux to gain market share.
Unfortunately, the tribe of the "failed web designers" type of developers has been clustering around Linux quite heavily lately. Take a look at Gnome3, it is happening more or less in every major Open Source project, and Linux distribution.
Fortunately, there are lots of other options for nerdishy people that don't like the way of Ubuntu.
Besides Mint I know of several happy home-users using Salix, Mepis, Calculate - and yes, I prefer XFCE.
DESKTOPS have been losing market share for long while Reggie. LAPTOPS are what sells. And now iPads and other tablets have taken a large chunck out of desktops for various reasons.
The chart includes laptops. What surprised me was Dell's market share in Europe is so tiny.
Yep would need that data for a fair comparison.
Yes, but still better than a Mac or a notebook just have a proper upgrade path mapped out. And you never know, there might be parts whose sale or even manufacture might be discontinued. I'm still waiting for a good ARM based netbook/laptop with integrated mobile broadband.