Businesses upgrading to Windows 10 forced global PC sales into the black for the first time in seven years in 2019, but it could have been so much better if Intel's chip drought had eased.
Preliminary findings from Gartner pegged shipments at 261.23 million, up 0.6 per cent year-on-year, and rival analyst IDC reckons 266.69 million found their way on the shelves of distributors and resellers, itself up 2.7 per cent.
Forced upgrades from Microsoft still seem to outweigh jumps to Linux. Will that ever change?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 16 2020, @07:10AM (3 children)
They reuse that model name. What's the CPU and GPU?
I'm going to guess it's a lot faster than my systems.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:19PM (2 children)
AMD A9. Not sure about the GPU.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:26PM (1 child)
AMD A9-9420e?
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:56PM
Yes.
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