PC Shipments Make History (by Plummeting at Record Rate)
PC Shipments Make History (by Plummeting at Record Rate)
Posted 06/23/2009 at 5:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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While netbooks continue to put on a strong showing, worldwide PC shipments fell by the "largest historic rate" since iSuppli has been tracking the market. Shipments only totaled 66.5 million in the first quarter of 2009, an 8.1 percent backslide from the 72.3 million shipped one year ago, and 14.4 percent less than the 77.6 million shipped in Q4 2008.
"The worldwide recession sparked by the credit crisis slammed PC shipments for the second quarter in succession during the first three months of 2009," said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms research at iSuppli. "The first quarter performance of the worldwide PC market was worse than iSuppli had expected in its prior forecast, which called for a 4 percent decline in shipments compared to the same period in 2008."
Disappointing desktop sales were largely responsible for decline, which saw a drop in shipments by 23 percent. Meanwhile, notebooks actually grew 10 percent compared to the same period one year ago.
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DravenX
June 23, 2009 at 9:41pm
Maybe more people are building computers since it's most likely going to be cheaper and you don't have to worry about all the crap that companies put on the system.
MeTo
June 23, 2009 at 8:54pm
I was wondering notebooks gained 10% If they included netbooks in that figure. That could be the reason for notebook sales to increase in bad economic times as netbooks are alot cheaper.
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nightkiller
June 23, 2009 at 7:21pm
If Windows 7 runs satisfactorily on a netbook (and it runs VERY well on a P4 1.7 Ghz Laptop with 1 Gig of RAM), this is going to make people think twice about upgrading hardware for ordinary computing. Why would you spend $500 on a new piece of hardware now when you can get a retail copy of Windows 7 for a third of the price, have a secure system and the ability to move it to a new machine when times get better?
You choose a flightless bird as a mascot and wonder why it doesn't take off?
nebulaz
June 23, 2009 at 7:18am
maybe Microsoft could help stimulate sales by creating an ad campaign where they film you in a parking lot, and follow you into a store, have you diss on Macs in a round about way then pay for your PC, oh wait. . .
ElderJefferson
June 23, 2009 at 6:44am
That's quite a drop. Maybe prices will start to come down on parts. Maybe?
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