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I think it's more than just that, we can't find parts that I really doubt would be used in laptops. We also have companies telling us it's going to be like this for at least a couple more years so not sure we're almost out of it.![]()
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 6.8% in First Quarter of 2022
Gartner says that worldwide #PC shipments declined 6.8% in the first quarter of 2022, due to a steep drop in Chromebook sales. Read more. #GartnerTGI #CIOwww.gartner.com
Yeesh.. if you wanted an estimate of just how massive Chromebooks were the past two years, here you go. Basically the whole chip shortage was caused by US Schools buying tons and tons of Chromebooks. It's not just the processor, there's several other chips that go into a laptop.
Things should be getting better soon at least.
The influx of Chromebook orders certainly didn't help the chip shortage, but it was one of many factors. You also had the launch of the Playstation 5 and XBox One X/S, automakers adding Apple CarPlay/Android Auto compatible infotainment systems across their entire product lines, and crypto miners ordering GPU's by the truckload direct from the manufacturer. Add manufacturing line shutdowns and port closures due to COVID, and you have a perfect storm for a supply chain meltdown.![]()
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 6.8% in First Quarter of 2022
Gartner says that worldwide #PC shipments declined 6.8% in the first quarter of 2022, due to a steep drop in Chromebook sales. Read more. #GartnerTGI #CIOwww.gartner.com
Yeesh.. if you wanted an estimate of just how massive Chromebooks were the past two years, here you go. Basically the whole chip shortage was caused by US Schools buying tons and tons of Chromebooks. It's not just the processor, there's several other chips that go into a laptop.
Things should be getting better soon at least.
Tragic.The situation in China is so infuriating. All food getting wasted since they're not letting people out to get to it.
Smells like COVID! Oh wait, I don't smell it anymore.FDA just approved a breath test that gives results in 3 minutes:
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FDA authorizes first Covid-19 breath test | CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to the first Covid-19 test that spots chemical compounds associated with the coronavirus in breath, the agency said Thursday.www.cnn.com
But if we take off our masks & ignore it, it doesn't exist anymore!Connecticut 7-day "rolling" Covid positivity-rate still creeping upwards every time I look @ 6.51%.
Perhaps more significantly +44 serious cases newly hospitalized. (161 total)
Just because everyone REALLY REALLY REALLY wants the pandemic to be over does NOT mean that it actually is.
Here in Denmark it is like Corona is already in a distant past.
True but it's looking like masks and vaccines are not providing much protection on whether people get omicron or not.People "moved on" from it long, long ago, but it turns out one's feelings on covid don't really provide effective protection in and of themselves.
It's just too bad that China doesn't have their own trucker movement to bitch about for a bit and declare that they have solved the covid problem for everyone. I hear that has worked before.Yeah don't mind the music lol. Not sure what's with that trend either.
you guys ingest that near-toxic level of anise candies that probably kills all the covidHere in Denmark it is like Corona is already in a distant past.
covid don't care that "people have moved on from it." You might find that out, soon....Mask usage is now super low at retail stores I frequent. I went to the Braves game last week, and I saw zero masks there. Probably close to 50k people at the stadium, and I didn't spot a single mask. People have moved on from covid.
That said, my sister got covid. She received the first 2 Moderna shots but not the booster. She just spent a week down in Orlando at Disney World and Universal with her kids so she likely got it while she was down there. Or she might have gotten it at the Braves game. She has Braves season tickets and went the day after we went so we weren't together.
But people have moved on from covid fears. People are not scared of omicron no matter how contagious it is.