PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed

Re:PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed by ghshephard on Thursday April 11, 2013 @02:54AM (#5530373)

I use a May 2004 Dell Precision 650 running Windows XP every day for VMware, Dynamips Router Simulation, Visio, Outlook, Power Point, Excel, Word, PDF generation. I've got a 150+ Page document open in Word right now.

I realize that a new machine might be a bit faster - but, this current computer has been so rock for the last couple years - I haven't had a blue screen/lockup in 3+ years - that I don't want to mess with anything.

So - I totally agree with you, one of the reasons why Desktop Sales might start to drop, is that for the average office worker, right around 2004/2005, Desktops got "Good Enough" that you really don't need to upgrade.

When Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP, we might see another round of system purchases though.

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Re:PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed by keithpeter on Thursday April 11, 2013 @03:46AM (#5530535)

HP XW6200 workstation (recycled) similar vintage, twin P4 Xeons, works fine with Linux.

I'm tempted by the floating point performance of the newer chips but for normal uses (LibreOffice Web &c) no problems.

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