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Global PC sales…

…they are a fallin’, according to this article by Ted Cruise for vilayas.com:

Global PC Sales Fall to Eight-Year Low

I’ve written about this and will repeat:

It’s not that PCs are suddenly undesirable to the public at large, but what is happening is that PC makers have reached a point where the products they are making are TOO GOOD.

I know I’m repeating things here (you can read one of my original posts regarding this here), but when personal computers first appeared, it seemed each passing year they got remarkably better.

As I stated in that original post, I bought a computer with an 8086 processor waaaay back when and though it was great…until a friend bought a 286 processor computer which blew that 8086 out of the water.  Then came a 386 which blew the 286 away, then a 486 which blew the 386 away, then a Pentium.  However, when the Pentium II showed up, there were fewer differences between it and the Pentium one.  Sure, your computer was a little faster, but the incredible advances between systems weren’t quite as evident.

We are now at a point where a new system comes out and we don’t really need to upgrade like we did before.  Thus, one can keep one’s desktop PC (if you have one!) for a far longer period of time.  I kept my previous PC an incredible five plus years before upgrading.  My new computer is faster but, frankly, other than more memory it really isn’t a quantum leap above the last system like, for example, the 386 was versus the 286 processor.

Sometimes, industry simply makes something so good there is little need to replace it.  Doesn’t mean the item they made is suddenly worthless!