PC Sales Crashing Like an Unpatched Windows Machine

Mon, Mar 2nd, 2009

Billionaire Warren Buffett says the economy will be in a shambles throughout "2009-and, for that matter, probably well beyond."

The same can apparently be said for the PC market. Research outfit Gartner on Monday warned that PC sales will suffer the "sharpest unit decline in history" this year. Gartner (IT) expects the PC industry to ship just 257 million units this year. That’s an 11.9 percent decline from 2008, one that easily eclipses the previous worst decline in 2001, when shipments fell 3.2 percent.

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