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Desktop, Notebook and Tablet Sales Up 25.4 Percent Over 2012

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avtek21

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PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 23, 2013 – Year to date through November 2013, 14.4 million desktops, notebooks, and tablets were sold through U.S. commercial channels, leading to a 25.4 percent increase over 2012, according to The NPD Group’s Distributor Track and Commercial Reseller Tracking Service.* This stellar performance follows the 3.1 percent sales increase experienced in 2012.

Desktop sales through the channel increased 8.5 percent, notebooks grew 28.9 percent, and tablets jumped 49 percent growth over the same time period in 2012. Windows notebooks* showed no growth over 2012, Windows desktops* increased by nearly 10 percent and Apple sales for notebooks and desktops combined fell by 7 percent.

http://www.legitreviews.com/desktop-notebook-tablet-sales-25-4-percent-2012_131566

With more CPU/APU options from AMD and Intel that can re define desktops to be small as a book or convenient as new AIOs, the double digits growth in Win desktops must be great news! It also looks like tablet sales are growing fast too, but iPads are causing Apple desktop and macbooks sales to fall.
 
I must be incapable of mapping that text to the image provided, because it looks to me as if Desktops + Notebooks are down compared to the previous year.

Chromebooks ... way to go.

Share-of-Unit-Slaes-US-Comm-Channel.jpg
 
CuriousMike said:
I must be incapable of mapping that text to the image provided, because it looks to me as if Desktops + Notebooks are down compared to the previous year.

Chromebooks ... way to go.

Share-of-Unit-Slaes-US-Comm-Channel.jpg
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Well, if anything your chart is a percentage and the text is on absolute numbers. So absolute number of units sold can go up but percentage share can go down if other units have outpaced it.
 
The percentage of all computers sold that were desktops is down. But enough computers were sold that the total number of desktops sold was up.

That's an amazing growth of chromebooks. Surprising growth of Windows tablets too.
 
It should be pointed out the OP article is US commercial / business channels. This is not total sales. This means retail sales are particularly bad when you combine the OP article with the data IDC came out with (for mature markets, like the US, looks like -9% overall) :

December 3, 2013
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427907,00.asp


"According to new data from IDC, worldwide computer sales are expected to decline more than 10 percent by the end of 2013 — the most severe yearly contraction on record."
 
avtek21 said:
The tech forums a short time ago also shows people who went all out with mining cards buying over 100 R9-290s at a time. Since they have to buy Mbs and CPUs, that is close to $50,000 for DIY sales not counted as desktop.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/89117-this-guy-bought-108-r9-290s/page-2
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I guess the question is, if you could print your own money, but other people could too, and the inflation would devalue yours, and the printing press to do so cost $50,000.00, would you?
 
CuriousMike said:
I must be incapable of mapping that text to the image provided, because it looks to me as if Desktops + Notebooks are down compared to the previous year.

Chromebooks ... way to go.

Share-of-Unit-Slaes-US-Comm-Channel.jpg
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Interesting! Desktops are down 1 - 0.278/0.323 = 13.9%. But Notebooks are down even more, 1 - 0.341/0.429 = 20.5%!

And still Intel's policy is to focus on Notebooks/Ultrabooks instead of Desktop CPUs. :\
 
TuxDave said:
Well, if anything your chart is a percentage and the text is on absolute numbers. So absolute number of units sold can go up but percentage share can go down if other units have outpaced it.
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Agreed. This is an incredibly misinforming chart.

US only. Commercial only.

We all know desktop/PC sales are largely dominated by business and direct OEM sales. The commercial market for PC's is fading as they get replaced with tablets, phones, and cheap netbooks. This will only accelerate in the years to come.
 
I don't understand Chromebooks (or anything that low powered). I am currently using a netbook with AMD's E450 APU (upgraded to 8GB RAM, using 128GB SSD, Win8.1), and I must say that it struggles on pretty much everything once I start doing anything substantial.

Flash (youtube, amazon videos) lags in the beginning but catches up. It stutters intermittently. If I video chat with anyone, the driver for the camera pretty much forces CPU utilization to go 80+. Add in a little bit of programming I do on the side, and the CPU is pretty much pegged to 100% all the time when I use it. I found out Win8.1 had Hyper-V built-in. So I enabled it to see if I could do some VM work. It was unbelievably slow (assuming it was working). Did I know what I was getting into when I bought this? Sort of. I knew CPU was weak, but not to this extent.

IMO, the hardware is just not up to par for any productive work. I understand the devices fill a segment of the market. I just don't understand that segment. Lesson learned for me. Having a small device to carry around (as opposed to my brick of a 5-year-old Thinkpad) is nice, but I fail to believe with all the power saving work that Intel has done in the past few years, we can't have a nice CPU in an 11" format.

Ninja-edit: To be clear, I mean for the 11"-ish formats to be affordable.
 
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shady28 said:
It should be pointed out the OP article is US commercial / business channels. This is not total sales. This means retail sales are particularly bad when you combine the OP article with the data IDC came out with (for mature markets, like the US, looks like -9% overall) :

December 3, 2013
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427907,00.asp


"According to new data from IDC, worldwide computer sales are expected to decline more than 10 percent by the end of 2013 — the most severe yearly contraction on record."
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The IDC expectations and projections are turning out to be incorrect. IDC reported actual world sales of PC monitors on Dec 23 and it beat expectations and would track with worldwide increase of PC sales.

This shows NPD and now IDC are both showing overall growth is clearly beating expectations. The reported US GDP was revised up much greater to 4.1% and durable goods orders much greater than expected, so there are multiple economic measures that point to much greater growth.

IDC: PC monitor market sees positive growth in Q3-2013

December 23, 2013, FRAMINGHAM, USA: Total worldwide PC monitor shipments were more than 35 million units in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), an increase of 4.5 percent compared to the previous quarter and 1.2 million units more than forecast, according to the International Data Corp. (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker.
 
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