Until recently, professionals were replacing their PCs every two years and many users every three years.
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The real reason that is that consumers are not demanding SSDs in their PCs.
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And if they do, do the hackers given them access back to their PCs?
They keep getting told that users are shedding their PCs in favor of their iPhones and iPads.
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People who once considered a Zip drive indispensable are neglecting to include them when upgrading their PCs.
These characters trade in their PCs for new ones at twice the rate of average computer owners.
Through AcerCloud PicStream, users can take pictures with their smartphones and view them on their PCs or tablets instantly.
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That profit margin decline in 2012 is the result of gazillions of Google users stepping away from their PCs.
Its customers are fickle, always ready to tear up their PCs to cram in the next hot graphics card from ATI.
Valenti had heard that Stanford students were giddily downloading pirated movies to their PCs from a server within the campus network.
Gnutella's users make some of their PCs' information public in exchange for access to the information on thousands of other computers.
Compaq and HP recently announced plans to sell some of their PCs direct to customers over the phone and the Internet.
As cellular networks get more advanced, more teens will be using the same IM programs on their phones as on their PCs.
Users are reporting that a strange, new, and difficult to uninstall program is finding its way on to their PCs called EasyBits GO.
Its customers are a fickle bunch, always ready to tear up their PCs to cram in the next hot graphics card from ati.
Futuremark's free 3DMark, PCMark and Peacekeeper tests have helped millions of people measure and improve their PCs' performance for games, media, applications and the web.
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Netflix, meanwhile, allows customers to rent digital movies for their PCs.
For people who have had their PCs for around five years who are wondering if they should retire the old beast and buy a new notebook.
Indeed, as enterprises enter the post-PC era, they are turning to iFixit to extend the lifespan of their iPads and Android smartphones along with their PCs.
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Apart from some exceptions, most companies are are too preoccupied with upgrading their PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7 to think about Windows 8.
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Professional graphics cards are purchased separately by professionals to get 3D graphics performance that is superior to the graphics cards that come installed in their PCs.
Sites that have relatively few Palm handhelds, and use them mainly as personal organizers with their PCs, are pleased with Palm's fast replacement service, for example.
The advertising possibilities are tremendous -- if you can trap viewers with decent programming and get them to stay for the commercials or switch to their PCs.
The manufacturers put that stuff on PCs and then the user puts Itunes, spyware, adware, and other crap that runs at startup and bogs down their pcs.
Canonical currently serves the leading PC OEMs: ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all certify the majority of their PCs on Ubuntu and pre-install it in global markets.
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Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, which is due out on October 25th, could also motivate many firms to upgrade their PCs and related equipment and software.
Two hours later it issued a fix - but since their PCs were unable to auto-install new code from the net, users had to perform several tasks first.
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Those who did so automatically inoculated their PCs against CIH.
Tablets are most used at home on weeknights in the living room, with Gartner noting that tablet users say they use their PCs 20 percent less on the weekends.
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