[Fudzilla] More than 10% PC shipment growth boost expected in 2010

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Playapplepie

Discussion Starter · Mar 17, 2009

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Chinese-language Commercial Times paper cited their sources claiming that 2010 PC shipment growth will get a boost of more than 10% thanks to Windows 7. Since this year saw the growth decline by 5%, this might not be such a tough task, but at least itâ€™s a relief from regularly bleak sales forecasts and poor results of recent months.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...12658&Itemid=1

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-iceblade^

· #2 · Mar 17, 2009

bleh. 10% because of windows 7? it's good but i don't think it's that good

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man03999

· #3 · Mar 17, 2009

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Originally Posted by -iceblade^

bleh. 10% because of windows 7? it's good but i don't think it's that good

Agree

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bruestle2

· #4 · Mar 17, 2009

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Originally Posted by -iceblade^

bleh. 10% because of windows 7? it's good but i don't think it's that good

Perception is all that matters. People didn't want Vista just because it was Vista and was portrayed as being horrible in the media.

In all honesty, Windows 7 very similar to Vista, however Win 7 is being viewed as "what Vista should have been" in the news. Therefore, people will want Windows 7.

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-iceblade^

· #5 · Mar 17, 2009

yes, but 10% of all worldwide computer shipments?

in a time were PC sales are slowing and the world economy is terrible? the only growing section of sales is netbooks and how many netbooks have shipped?

14.6 million in 2008 and 35 million in 2009

i know these are estimates but still, it's way too much. will OEM's and businesses and servers make the jump, considering the training and etc it would need to effectively deploy the OS? not to mention cost? and don't forget we enthusiasts running around will not do all that much to make that figure increase due to our small number.

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Hephasteus

· #6 · Mar 18, 2009

This makes little sense. Corporate budgets will be the MOST hamstrung and they will be the only ones getting this junk cheap. For what windows 7 costs I will spend my money on a quiet laptop drive, video card and custom case stuff.

kill -9 $(pidof windows7)

When people start saying... I like vista I'm sticking to it windows will finally understand that it's all about the money honey. Forcing license on cpu instead of on a person will keep hurting them more and more. You can't get people to buy several licenses per computer. It won't keep working. Genuine advantage having hissy fits and deleting itself off of hard drives on hardware changes and all the other shenanigans will eventually make people mad enough about it that they will endure the linux learning curve. The anger curve is getting steaper and the learning curve is getting shallower. You can get people to pay you to help them but it's harder to get them to pay you to be a pain in their butt.
I'd be more likely to predict 200 million people getting forced out of windows this year due to security problems than to predict spending 130 to 300 dollars on an operating system will stimulate pc sales.

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Hayday

· #7 · Mar 18, 2009

I REALLY don't think this is gonna happen.

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