PC sales fall flat for the first time in years

Martin Courtney
clock • 2 min read

PC shipments in lucrative Christmas quarter disappoint, and UK is Europe's weakest market

Strong sales of mini-notebooks PCs brought scant seasonal cheer to manufacturers Sales of desktop and portable PCs remained flat in the fourth quarter of 2008 despite big average price declines, ...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch's fraud trial opens in San Francisco

Law

Lynch accused of being the 'driving force' behind 'massive' fraud at Autonomy

clock 19 March 2024 • 3 min read
Microsoft, Dell and Lenovo laptops vulnerable to Windows Hello authentication flaw

Threats and Risks

Researchers employed reverse engineering techniques on both software and hardware

clock 27 November 2023 • 2 min read
HP must face printer lawsuit, judge rules

Law

Dismisses HP's own attempt at dismissal - again

clock 17 August 2023 • 2 min read

Sign up to our newsletter

The best news, stories, features and photos from the day in one perfectly formed email.

More on Finance and Reporting

Capita reports £107mn annual losses, blames cyberattack

Capita reports £107mn annual losses, blames cyberattack

Capita's share price plummeted 54% since the attack

clock 08 March 2024 • 2 min read
Salesforce's Benioff: 'This must be the year of Data Cloud'

Salesforce's Benioff: 'This must be the year of Data Cloud'

Makes light of customer's AI bungle, as Q4 profits up 10%

Wade Tyler Millward
clock 29 February 2024 • 8 min read
Nvida revenues rise 265% on AI chips

Nvida revenues rise 265% on AI chips

Looks set to make Nvidia more valuable than Amazon and Alphabet

John Leonard
clock 22 February 2024 • 2 min read