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Is this a sign of bottoming PC demand, or are the industry's inventory woes about to worsen?...
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Monday, October 1, 2012, 6:48 PM ETIs this a sign of bottoming PC demand, or are the industry's inventory woes about to worsen? Digitimes reports Taiwanese contract manufacturers boosted their notebook shipments to top OEMs in September, as vendors increase supplies ahead of Windows 8's (MSFT) Oct. 26 launch - H-P (HPQ) saw a 70% M/M shipment increase, Asus 50%, and Acer 30%. Williams Financial is encouraged by the report, and says it's consistent with talks the firm has had with Taiwanese supply chain contacts. (Clover Trail delays)
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I REALLY want a new notebook to replace my boat anchor. I went into Best Buy looking for an Ivy Bridge Ultrabook. They had some that claimed to be Ultrabooks, but they all had HHD with small SSD cache drives. Heavy, short battery life. Toshiba had the right unit a Portege 935 2.5lbs. None in stock in Minneapolis/St Paul. I drove around to every computer seller I could think of. No pure Ultrabooks anywhere.
Went back to BB and bought a Macbook Air. 3 lbs, 12 second boot, 8hrs of battery life. After four days the Geek Squad couldn't transfer my data and contacts. Cancelled the order and went over to the Apple store and bought one. They couldn't get my contacts over from Outlook. I kept fighting with it. The damn thing locked up five times a day. Locked up one time when I was having a one to one session. I finally gave up and returned it to Apple after three weeks (they didn't like that, but they didn't like the idea of conciliation court even more)
I'm back to the boat anchor a much wiser PC user. I intend to get an Ultrabook sometime ....I suppose I'll have to suffer though window 8...ugh.
I guess I'm not surprised that the PC business is down some, I am surprised it is not down a lot more.
From my experience I wouldn't have a Mac if it were free. Love the phone, though.