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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by ChrisLTD on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:47AM (#33163305)
What goes up...

> It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over year in 2021 and were up 27% over 2019, with a whopping 341 million units sold.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/canalys-worldwide-pc-shipm...

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Re:PC Shipments Plunge Nearly 20%, Steepest Drop in More Tha... by jdhn on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:49AM (#33163338)
Thanks for posting this, all these handwringing articles about PC shipments dropping are forgetting that there was a huge bump up from Covid purchases. We're just returning to normalcy now.
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