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PC market flat, as Surface becomes a top-5 computer brand in the US
Microsoft was the fifth-biggest PC maker in the US in the third quarter of this year, according to industry advisory firm Gartner.
The top spot in the US belongs to HP, with about 4.5 million machines sold, ahead of Dell at 3.8 million, Lenovo at 2.3 million, and Apple at 2 million. The gap between fourth and fifth is pretty big—Microsoft sold only 0.6 million Surface devices last quarter—but it suggests that Microsoft's PC division is heading in the right direction, with sales 1.9 percent higher than the same quarter last year. The company pushed down to sixth place was Acer.
The current quarter should be better still; the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Surface Studio have all been given hardware refreshes which, when combined with the always-busy holiday season, should stimulate higher sales.
(Score: 5, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Monday October 15 2018, @07:18PM (1 child)
The battery is glued in, but a bit of clever work with Dental floss makes it easy to remove. That isn't the hard part. You have to remove the screen to get to the SSD or the battery. That has me sweating, as removing it requires gingerly guitar-picking the 0.4mm thick glued in glass screen. It's takes some finesse to remove without damage. I've done successfully on a Surface Pro 3.
My understanding is the big driver for the engineering decision is device durability and density. It makes a measurable difference in both.
Full Disclosure: I work for Microsoft as a PFE supporting enterprise customers. This is my opinion and not that of my employer, and I'm not being paid to write this.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 16 2018, @06:22PM
you couldn't get honorable work instead? by working for these scum you are a slaveware peddler and complicit in the enslavement of your fellow man. sad...