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Gartner: Slowing PC sales show users using tablets for secondary devices

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:56:06 +0000

Gartner reports that worldwide PC sales were down for the fourth quarter of 2012, and claims part of the reason is that people are turning to tablets for secondary devices. Read more...

Going up: PC market climbs 21%, with HP back on top

Andy Weir — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:19:44 +0100

The latest figures show that the global PC market - including tablets - has grown 21% year-on-year. But as iPad sales fell by over 20% last quarter, HP regained its spot as the world's top PC maker. Read more...

Weekend PC games sales for April 27-29

John Callaham — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:38:08 +0100

The list of downloadable PC games on sale this weekend includes titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Serious Sam 3, Brink, the original Syndicate and lots more. Read more...

Rise of tablets will increase PC desktop sales, claims Forrester

John Callaham — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:51:20 +0100

A new report from Forrester Research claims that even as tablet sales go up, they will also cause sales of PC desktops to rise, although at the expense of notebook PC sales. Read more...

PC shipments inch up higher in Q1 2012

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:29:33 +0100

A new report from IDC says that PC shipments actually went up in the first quarter of 2012, beating expectations of a slight decline in shipments for that same time period. Read more...

IDC: Windows 8 will help boost PC shipments in 2012

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:46:14 +0000

Research group IDC said this week it expects the launch of Windows 8 to help boost overall PC shipments in the second half of 2012. It also says tablets won't be a replacement for the PC. Read more...

Report: PC sales to grow slowly ahead of Windows 8

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:59:12 +0000

A new report from Gartner claims that PC sales will grow by just 4.4 percent in 2012 ahead of the launch of Windows 8 but will grow more quickly by the end of 2013. Read more...

Smartphone sales overtook PCs in 2011

Tyler Holman — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:38:48 +0000

According to the latest analyst reports, global smartphone sales overtook those of traditional (and not so traditional) PCs during 2011, outselling their larger cousins by almost 73 million units. Read more...

iPad sales now account for 11 percent of PC market

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:33:30 +0100

Apple's latest quarterly financial announcement on Tuesday revealed that the company has sold 9.25 million units of its iPad tablet in the April-June quarter of 2011. The massive sales of the iPad brand, which launched... Read more...

One billion PCs are now in use

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:23:23 +0100

There are now more than one billion PCs in use worldwide and this number will double by the year 2014, according to Gartner research. The figures relate to computers that are actually being used, as... Read more...