{"id":29277,"date":"2023-01-11T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/pc-sales-slump-to-pre-pandemic-volumes-in-q4-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:48:01","slug":"pc-sales-slump-to-pre-pandemic-volumes-in-q4-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/pc-sales-slump-to-pre-pandemic-volumes-in-q4-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"PC sales slump to pre-pandemic volumes in Q4 \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Global PC shipments \u2013 desktops, notebooks and workstations \u2013 saw out 2022 with something of a whimper as sales volumes crashed to levels last seen before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

According to IDC<\/a>, 67.2 million traditional computers were shipped in calendar Q4, down 28.1 percent on the prior year, on a par with the number of boxes sold to resellers and retailers in the final quarter of 2018 when the sector was constrained by Intel’s CPU shortages. Remember them?<\/a><\/p>\n

There can be no doubt that the “pandemic book is over for the PC market,” said the market researcher. Sales are waning and demand is a worry for manufacturers as many users have already a relatively new machines and gloom in the global economy is deepening.<\/p>\n

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