And before the pandemic PC sales have been declining/stagnating for a while. Nothing surprising here except that WSJ is also getting into the clickbait-headline-useless-article territory.

showing long term trends doesn't fit their narrative though.

Yeah, really the only reason a lot of people upgraded was the fear of supply chain issues and AMD CPUs got good. Performance finally came up to justify the expense, and now there is nothing significantly more performant. Either prices need to come down, or new tech needs to come out to make it work it. I'm still on a 2012 Xeon system, No Change Needed.

Well I’d upgrade still, but DDR5 is a requirement for the high end AMD stuff now, and that is just outright expensive

Came here to post this. It’s no wonder that people call the media fake news when they post this alarmist nonsense all the time — the way they abuse headlines has really earned them their reputation.

I miss boring news. CTV seems decent. Any other outlets someone would recommend?

Did you maybe post this in the wrong place? It seems completely unrelated to the post it's replying to.

Doesn't seem out of place to me.