PC Sales Skyrocket

Published on July 18th, 2008

Posted by John C Dvorak in General

PC shipments on the increase.
Symantec screws its distributors. Interesting strategy.
Google buys another contextual ad firm. It’s out of Russia.
AMD in the news as the company gets rid of CEO.
Psystar selling HQ.
Cold fusion results rigged.
gPhone back in the news.
A new worm transcodes MP3’s in an effort to infect PC’s.
Computer mouse heading for extinction.
Microsoft online keeps losing money. Web ad business rocky.
Sun hopes to do well in Africa.

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# 1 Ah_Yea said, on July 18th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

“PC shipments on the increase.”

Yes, now that you can buy XP installed instead of Vista….

Or maybe it’s Psystar?

# 2 Ah_Yea said, on July 18th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

Or maybe not…

# 3 Esteban said, on July 18th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

If Apple stops Psystar from selling bootleg copies of Leopard, maybe they could switch to selling bootleg copies of XP. I’m pretty sure there’s a growing market for that.

# 4 Mister Ketchup said, on July 19th, 2008 at 3:09 am

Anyone seen Mister Mustard? Just worried…

# 5 bobbo said, on July 19th, 2008 at 3:26 am

#4–I think Mr Pickle and Mr Mayo hauled him off to 1000 Islands. You should have been in on the heist?

# 6 Mister Ketchup said, on July 19th, 2008 at 5:18 am

#5 – Damn, I told them to hold the mayo.

# 7 pedro said, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:08 am

PC sales could be up because non-rabid macfans figured that vista was as purrrty as macos & stopped deceiving themselves.

#4 I think he ran out of made-up arguments to defend his candidate, or that he agreed with a post of mine. One of those might have driven him into a deep state of shock

# 8 Judge Jewdy said, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:12 am

peedro, uh, er, PC sales include MAC – douchebag!

# 9 Cinaedh said, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:28 am

# 8 – Judge Jewdy

Are you sure personal computer sales include the Mac?

I thought every Apple computer in existence still belonged to Steve Jobs and Apple.

# 10 QB said, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:30 am

PC prices have dropped a lot in the last 6 months with thinner margins but more volume for the big manufacturers – the little guys are in trouble. China, India, Brazil, and Russia are seeing huge PC sales growth.

# 11 QB said, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:49 am

Wow, John said something almost, kind of, in a way, sort of nice about the gPhone.

# 12 Jägermeister said, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:53 am

#4 – Mister Ketchup – Anyone seen Mister Mustard?

# 13 pedro said, on July 19th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

#8 Not to mention that the example of biggest growth was Dell, not mac. Think different, will ya?

# 14 Mister Mustard said, on July 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

Cool down, condiments. Mustard will always be the spice of choice.

# 15 Floyd said, on July 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

“Computer mouse headed for extinction.”
Riiight. Whenever I have to buy/use a laptop, I ignore the trackpad and use a mouse of some kind. I will not buy a touch screeen PC, as the last thing I need to do is put fingerprints all over my screen.

# 16 Judge Jewdy said, on July 20th, 2008 at 7:06 am

To Pedro!!

http://tinyurl.com/6mfuu3

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