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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the ups-and-downs dept.

The PC market may have stabilized and could see its recent declines reverse:

The PC market is forecast to return to growth next year according to Gartner, as buyers come to the end of their evaluation periods for Windows 10.

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to hit 267 million units in 2018, a 1.9 per cent increase on 2017, when shipments are forecast to reach 262 million. By 2019, shipments are pegged to hit 272 million units.

This year's PC sales are however expected to fall yet again for the sixth consecutive year, with shipments dropping three per cent when compared with 2016.

[...] Elsewhere, smartphone shipments will also continue to grow at a healthy rate, the market watcher claims. Shipments are expected to grow 5 per cent year on year to nearly 1.6 billion units in 2017. Gartner claims that the market is experiencing a shift away from low-cost "utility" phones, towards higher-priced "basic" and "premium" smartphone devices.

PC components are becoming slightly more expensive at the same time.

Also at EE Times.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:24AM (3 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:24AM (#536389) Journal

    Would Pi3 handle 480p which seems good enough for most purposes and then locally scaled up? if not what is "not stellar performance" in practice? play-pause-repeat..?

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:29PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:29PM (#536507)

    It does 480p, but not much more. Other operations seem to be a bit sluggish while trying to do 480p, or the 480p gets stuttery when doing _anything_ else simultaneously. Also depends on quality of your net connection, other network traffic trying to squeeze through their byzantine ethernet connection, how compressed that 480p stream is, etc.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:27PM (1 child)

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:27PM (#536519) Journal

      Is it the network pipeline that is of too low capacity? or is it the processor performance?
      No video decompression acceleration? I recall it being capable of mpeg4 hardware encode and decode. Maybe a remote computer recoding to mpeg4 would be useful..

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:22PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:22PM (#536562)

        The Pi Ethernet hardware setup is widely criticized... via USB, 100Mb, inefficient drivers, etc.

        I imagine it's a lack of hardware decode that's making the processor sweat, yes, it can do it, but can it do it on a Chrome rendered YouTube page?

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