This means that the main PC in your den and a second PC in your kid's bedroom can both have the same fast access to the Net.
Second, PC sales have been slowing across the board, quarter by quarter, as consumer dollars shift to slabs and phones.
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In Q4 2010, Dell became the second largest PC vendor, jumping ahead of Acer which recorded notable sales declines in part due to weak sales of Mini Notebook PCs.
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Imagine having 2 million to 3 million bits (and soon thereafter billions) per second for your PC, instead of the sorry 50, 000-or-so bits most folks cope with today.
Nevertheless, based on this table and other mounting evidence, first and second generation Eee PC owners shouldn't feel any compulsion to rush out and upgrade to Atom on day 1.
It is also projecting a mid-single digit decline in the second quarter and it is uncertain if PC shipments can increase in the second half of the year compared to 2012.
The onslaught of Apple's iPad and a host of imitators have cut deeply into Acer's revenue, which has slipped from second to fourth place among PC vendors amid stalled sales.
Talk to people who make PC components about the prospects for the second half, and they are jazzed about the potential for a huge PC-replacement cycle.
Last year, it overtook Dell to rank second behind Hewlett Packard in global PC sales.
We heard the rumor now ASUS' CEO, Jerry Shen, confirms in an interview with Laptop that ASUS will slap a touchscreen and Windows 7 into a new Eee PC sometime in the second half of 2009.
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Second, while the Asus Eee PC may have been closer to a computing appliance or companion than a PC, the deluge of netbooks from large PC companies such as HP, Acer and Dell that have followed have overwhelmingly run Windows and have been embraced by consumers as small and cheap, if underpowered, laptops.
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If the economy avoids downside scenarios in the second half of the year, a PC upgrade cycle in 2013 should help to maintain this momentum.
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Second, they tend to substitute for PC play when initially acquired.
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The Company's desktop PC shipments worldwide in the second quarter increased 8.8 percent year-over-year worldwide, compared to an overall industry decrease of nine percent worldwide.
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Both IDC and Gartner this afternoon reported that global PC shipments rose modestly in the second quarter, but with declining demand in the U.S. market.
During the second fiscal quarter, Lenovo's worldwide PC shipments grew 10.3 percent, in a difficult market that was down eight percent year-over-year, the 14th quarter in a row that the company has grown faster than the PC industry as a whole.
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Unless you've got just the right controller and flash memory, most performance-minded PC users will rarely give you a second glance.
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But the company is riding high on computer giant Compaq's decision to use Creative's second-generation digital video disk upgrade kit in its new PC lines.
The Texas-based PC company will report preliminary earnings for its fiscal second quarter Thursday, the first since Dell came clean about its accounting shenanigans earlier this month.
One person can watch and record TV on a Mac, and at the same time a second person can watch and record a different channel on a PC.
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Though IDC estimates a revival in demand in the second half of the year, we keep a conservative estimate for PC shipments in the future.
Though IDC estimates a revival in demand in the second half of the year, we maintain a conservative estimate for PC shipments in the future.
It is due to this cannibalization of the PC market that we estimate the iPad to be the second most valuable division for Apple, after the iPhone.
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In attempting its current restructuring, Acer faces a formidable Asian rival in China's Lenovo Group, which ranks a close second behind Hewlett-Packard Co. as the world's biggest PC maker.
Two GPUs on one card, giving the power of 4 GPUs on a PC. 2GB dedicated frame buffer, 41 gigapixels per second throughput. 5.2 teraflops of computing power.
While that continues, low-cost PC cameras will become increasingly attractive to consumers, spurring growth of second- and third-tier vendors which are expected to challenge market leaders Logitech and Intel, IDC is forecasting.
According to Gartner, global PC shipments fell below 80 million units for the first time since the second quarter of 2009.
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