PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Than 20 Years

Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by Comevius on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:41AM (#33163243)

Not surprising, in this environment you either have much more money or much less depending on which side of the wage gap you are on as inequality keeps growing, and yet nobody would buy a new computer that doesn't function better than the old ones.

That's what Apple did right with the M1 and M2 and the demand for them keeps growing. All the PC industry have is overheating components and Windows 11 with it's terrible user experience. Intel and AMD are battling over benchmarks with their 300W TDP processors when all the market wants is battery life. They completely lost the plot.

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by sidewndr46 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:52AM (#33163368)

You are very misinformed if you think the PC industry only has Windows 11 as an operating system.

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by Comevius on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:23AM (#33163717)

So I looked around and almost all Lenovo, HP and Asus computers are sold with Windows 11 or no operating system. There are a few Chromebooks with ChromeOS. Lenovo have a few workstations with Linux, they are targeting small businesses with them.

Did I miss something?

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:54PM (#33165703)

Wait, "no OS" is an option? How long has that been available? And, do you get a price break compared to putting Windows on?

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by PeterStuer on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:04PM (#33165821)

Would be difficult as 'no-OS' also implies 'No-Crapware' kickbacks for the seller.

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by temp2022account on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:54AM (#33163400)

Existing as a single statistic: last 2 machines I built are running Arch.

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by mmphosis on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:11PM (#33165146)

I run Windows 10 because there is no reason to update to Windows 11. Windows still has 90% of the notebook & desktop PC market, but Android has surpassed Windows. And, yes I run other operating systems but it’s not easy to install on PC hardware.

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