US PC Market Grows 17% In Q2 2021 As Notebook Popularity Booms (zdnet.com) 17
According to analysts at Canalys, the PC market in the United States is booming. Sales in Q2 2021 have grown 17% with 36.8 million units shipped. "Notebooks and desktops led the way with a growth in shipments of 27% and 23% respectively compared to last year," reports ZDNet. From the report: HP was the leading company in the US, delivering more than 8 million devices to customers and dominating the Chromebook sector with a 42% market share. Apple suffered a 3% decline in devices shipped but still held on to the second place slot behind HP. Canalys noted that Apple was the only major PC manufacturer to see negative growth in Q2, due in no small part to waning consumer interest in iPads, according to the report. The company did see a 24% increase in notebook shipments thanks to recent success with the M1 chip.
The rest of the list is rounded out by Samsung, which saw a 51% growth in shipments year over year while Lenovo and Dell posted 25% and 11% growth respectively in Q2. Canalys attributed Lenovo's success to its growing influence over the Chromebook market while Samsung solidified its place in the tablet market, seeing a growth of 19% in the US for Q2 even as the overall tablet market shrank. [Tablet shipments were down 1% in Q2.] Following a spike in tablet interest in Q2 2020, there has been a slowdown as the COVID-19 pandemic has waned and more people spent the summer outdoors.
The rest of the list is rounded out by Samsung, which saw a 51% growth in shipments year over year while Lenovo and Dell posted 25% and 11% growth respectively in Q2. Canalys attributed Lenovo's success to its growing influence over the Chromebook market while Samsung solidified its place in the tablet market, seeing a growth of 19% in the US for Q2 even as the overall tablet market shrank. [Tablet shipments were down 1% in Q2.] Following a spike in tablet interest in Q2 2020, there has been a slowdown as the COVID-19 pandemic has waned and more people spent the summer outdoors.
I'll be Bach (Score:1)
That didn't last long, it's back.
Tim Cook, call your Marketing Department (Score:1)
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Computing On A Cell Phone (Score:3)
is horrible long term and folks want their PC's back.
Re: Computing On A Cell Phone (Score:2)
That was my view earlier and still is for some things; but for things that I am not that good at, say photoshop or any media editing, i have started using my phone more.
Even if I am on the laptop I'll copy the media to phone, fiddle around then get it back on laptop.
Mainly because the smartphone apps are much easier and dumbed down and typically have some sort of AI or whatever to make them do 1-2 specific things easily. So I have like 8-10 apps which I will use one by one sequentially to fix the media.
For
Where's the link to the report? (Score:2)
Where's the link to the actual report?
The summary's lone link is to a news article about the report. The summary also includes some interesting quotes from the report, but it would be better to read the report directly. I did find this Canalys press release [canalys.com] that also doesn't have a link to the report.
It would be really interesting to dive deeper into many aspects of the report: (1) Desktop sales grew on an annual basis, but the annual growth rate for notebooks actually dropped from around 80% to 14.6%.
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Apple numbers not surprising (Score:3)
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Ah, yes. Apple.
The company that sells you an awful keyboard for a generation and their users consider it an "upgrade" when they go back to a slightly-less-terrible one.
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Ah, yes. Apple.
The company that sells you an awful keyboard for a generation and their users consider it an "upgrade" when they go back to a slightly-less-terrible one.
The old keyboard wasn't, IMHO, that much worse than most laptop keyboards of the same vintage; I found them to lack the feel of a real keyboard but still quite usable. I also never had the problems some experience with them so YMMV. The new design has better tactile feedback but is far from perfect.
Frankly, since the move to thinner and thinner laptops the keyboards have gotten worse in most laptops no matter who makes them. Then again, there hasn't been a decent keyboard since the old IBM PC days.
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I got rid of the thing because:
A) it wasn't nearly worth the money. Turns out you can't even tell it's got a wicked fast processor. Still can't do anything remotely laptoppy with it (with a straight face)
B) the bloom on the mini-led display is insultingly fucking bad. what the fuck Apple? OLEDs are a thing. My Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+'s display destroys the mini-led. Of course the downside on the Samsung, is that HDR in android is a pain in the ass to mak
(Finally) sufficient power and functionality (Score:2)
Not that long ago, laptops were always inferior to desktops in terms of performance. These days, for $1,000 or so, you can get a decent laptop with great processor performance and OK graphics performance (sufficient to drive a 4K monitor). I used to insist on desktops, but now, I like the portability, and I really don't have to give up much or pay an exorbitant price. A USB-C dock makes it easy to attach to "real" monitors, keyboards, and mice.