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posted by martyb on Wednesday January 15 2020, @12:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-is-a-PC? dept.

The Register:

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @11:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @11:33AM (#943949)

    I've had serious issues loading data onto my current phone. My workaround is to pop out the external card, put it into a card reader, copy across the files using a PC, then put the card back in. Done.

    How else will I get hundreds of files across to the phone? Bluetooth?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 16 2020, @11:39AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday January 16 2020, @11:39AM (#943951) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go [wikipedia.org]

    You might have to play with settings to get the phone recognized as a storage device instead of a camera.

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