For over three decades PCs have accounted for more than 50% of the DRAM market.
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Det Con Tom Boow, who was behind three uniformed PCs - Mark Merritt, Martin Corderoy and Lee Bush - as they forced their way into the house during the raid, told the court that almost as soon as they broke down the door the officers started retreating backwards.
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They were the world's top three shippers of PCs in the third quarter of 1995.
In comparison, they turned to tablets twice a day and mobile PCs three times a day, Gartner said.
Leadership talks about the ability to lead and Jobs not only led Apple he led the market out of a class of largely boring (white box) and poorly thought through products in three segments (PCs, MP3 players, and Phones) to vastly healthier market.
GM's DirecTV division replaces its PCs every three years to accommodate the growing volume of video it ships around the office.
The firm noted many companies that used to buy new PCs every three years before the recession have pushed out their purchases to every four or five years these days.
"There are a lot of computer manufacturers that are making computers like these now that you can buy presently and are supporting Big Picture, " he said, referencing the three non-Valve PCs on display in the booth.
And now tablets have surpassed PCs in worldwide sales three years later.
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United usually replaced its 15, 000 PCs every two or three years.
Rapidly declining prices opened the market to new households while homes that already had PCs thought nothing of having three or four under the same roof.
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The Ecosign team fired up AutoCAD, a design software used by architects and engineers to sketch three-dimensional project drafts, and used PCs to plug in technical numbers for Olympic courses.
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His company, on a three-year refresh cycle, runs the PCs on Windows 7 and doesn't have plans to migrate to Windows 8 until either the performance of Windows 7 deteriorates, or if a licensing deal with Microsoft were to make cost a nonissue.
Global sales of PCs fell 14% in the first three months of the year, the biggest fall since research firm IDC started tracking the industry in 1994.
The three companies sold a large number of Windows 8 PCs last week as consumers endured massive crowds and long lines on the biggest shopping day of the year.
This week three unions - the civil servants' union the PCS and two teaching unions the NUT and ATL - unveiled plans to get 750, 000 of their members to walk out later this month in protest at pension cuts.
Until recently, professionals were replacing their PCs every two years and many users every three years.
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Under Fiorina HP rested on three pillars known as the product divisions (printers, PCs, servers).
Another billion people will join the Internet in the next three years, and those are not people with desktop PCs.
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Outdoor gear retailer REI recently decided to replenish its base of PCs only once every five years instead of three years, thanks to a switch to flat-panel screens that last longer.
Not only does the Power Mac G4 look the part, it also leaves the fastest Pentium III-powered PCs in its dust - performing tasks almost three times quicker on average according to Apple.
PCs was announced by Gateway , one of the three biggest producers dealing directly with customers.
Gartner surveyed 510 people and asked them to keep track of what they did with their three most-used devices (media tablets, mobile phones and PCs) over the course of a week.
All three argued that, in order for SSDs to replace HDDs in PCs, hundreds of billions of dollars would need to be invested in flash manufacturing capacity, and that such funding was quite simply unavailable.
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Three of HP's four main lines of business--printing, PCs and services--are profitable.
And users from those three countries were also the most likely to engage in other risky behavior on work PCs, including reading personal e-mail, downloading music and video and even peer-to-peer file-sharing, a practice that often spreads malicious software or inadvertently gives outsiders access to sensitive documents.
On average, one in three respondents used their media tablets to read a book, compared with 13 percent for mobile PCs, and 7 percent for mobile phones.
Forecasts made as recently as three months ago predicted that electric cars would become the leading application for lithium ion batteries by 2015, surpassing laptop PCs and other handheld devices.
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