PC Sales Slump as Kids Say No to Computers

[Gurtie]

But honestly, I bet fridge sales are down, and clothing sales are down, and vacation sales and sales of new Christmas trees, but it doesn't mean we're saying no to cold beer, warm jumpers and enjoying ourselves.

I do think that people are using less desktops at home, and yes I'm sure companies aren't upgrading as regularily as they used to. There's likely more market segmentation depending on use/location. But hell will freeze over before most companies in the UK shift to tablets or laptops for all (not least because of the costs and ease of stealing things of the smaller devices) so I think Dell desktop division is safe for a while yet

[Rooftop]

Done my bit to help: Another order placed with Lenovo today

[thesaintv12]

4 kids here, 1 laptop (current), 1 desktop (asked for), 1 android tablet (asked for), 1 happy to use family desktop

My son has been on at me to get him a desktop for Christmas.  I thought he would rather have a laptop, but he doesn't.  So, the Christmas holiday project is to build one.  I have not done that for a while and he will get to learn something.  It might also cover his holiday homewor, and be a great excuse to miss eastenders and all the other crap on TV 

[Drastic]

So if they're all buying ipads instead, do they buy a kb too? How else do they bang out papers?

I agree with edo, a lot of it has do to with pc power being enough for the last few years. I'm still running a quad core 6g machine from years ago and it does everything I need fine. Step back a generation and I would have already built a new one. I bought almost top of the line when I built this rig, today's machine in that performance bracket is about twice the cpu power. The last leap was probably 10x.

The cpu quasi-plateau and stumbling economy are more likely to blame imo.