SAN FRANCISCO: Sales of desk and laptop computers declined last year, extending a slide started in 2012, according to figures released on Wednesday by two market trackers.

Preliminary figures from Gartner indicated that PC shipments last year tallied 269.7 million units in a 6.2% decline from the previous year.

Internation Data Corporation pegged the number of machines shipped last year at 260 million, calculating a 5.7% drop from the previous year.

”Stagnation in the (personal computer) market continued into the fourth quarter of 2016 as holiday sales were generally weak due to the fundamental change in PC buying behaviour,”
Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa said in a release.

”The broad PC market has been static as technology improvements have not been sufficient to drive real market growth.”

While there has been growth in sales of innovative new machines such as hybrid laptops with removable “tablet” screens,
the demand was not enough to offset a drop in sales of traditional models, Gartner found.

Another factor was that people are putting off replacing desk or laptop computers because they use them infrequently, opting instead to go online with smartphones, according to Kitagawa.

Despite market stagnation, she saw potential the PCs in business and gaming.

IDC analysts interpreted the latest figures as indicating PC growth that was beginning to stabilize as pressure on the market from smartphones and tablets eased.

”The fourth quarter results reinforce our expectations for market stabilisation, and even some recovery,” IDC vice president of personal computing tracker and forecasting Loren Loverde said.

”The contraction in traditional PC shipments experienced over the past five years finally appears to be giving way as users move to update systems.”

China-based Lenovo remained the leader in the global PC market, followed by US firms HP and Dell. All three increased their share of the market in the final quarter of last year,
according to both industry trackers. — AFP

http://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2...-year-in-a-row/

They're referring to pre-built systems, right?

Was expecting to see cheap dells, nope, still no change.

Nowadays, majority of the PC performance are quite OK that they don't need to upgrade that often. I'm still using a 4 years old PC and without any performance issue that warrant for an upgrade.

dont they learn, people dont buy branded pc, people build them.

lel they keep taking a desktop and hammer it to become a laptop and charging MyVi prices for it of course lar, who the f can afford.

even the cheap ones are using crappy atom or i3 processor

last IT fair in midvalley these buggers try to sell me stuff and says atom or i3s are fast with 4GB ram and crappy ssd hdd. i show them when opening around a few windows\programs concurrently already the pc laggy like bobbies of 2 old aunties in a nudist beach

come on where are the decent sub RM3k i7s with 16GB ram and 256ssds ?

And yet people tend to change phones every year despite the specs for flagship phones nowadays can last for 3 years

It's total PC ie desktop, notebook and workstation.

DIY market even worse.

ppl prefer custom PC lah

because Mobile Phone can be "mobile" while Desktop PC is not

My old desktop running on AMD 700Mhz slot type CPU still work just fine

zaman college gila2 upgrade.

zaman kerja meh office laptop will do.

Custom PC market lagi worse.

do people still upgrade their pc nowdays?
still using my 3 years old oc that was cos 5 k that time

worse but still moving
electronic will eventually fail and needed replacement

guess what, iphone sales fall too.

the world has become a much poorer place.

once technology has mature, the blue ocean strategy no longer works, and sales eventually fall. it's the natural order of things.



This post has been edited by happyking4ever: Jan 13 2017, 09:36 AM

this is so true.
working no time and waste effort to chase technology, more commitment.

just reduce price to push up sales again. what r they thinking

casing: still in shape, no need upgrade.

power supply: use until kaboom baru change.

motherboard: not yet kaput, no need upgrade.

cpu: no encode video, no gaming, no need upgrade.

ram: casual use 8gb enough liao, no need upgrade.

graphic card: no gaming, no watch 4k, no need upgrade.

storage: streaming nowadays, save a lot of storage space liao.

monitor: use until color lari baru change.