Wintel Declines at Robert Pogson

“Worldwide PC shipments will total 363 million in 2012, a decline of 1.5 million units or 0.4% from 365 million shipped in 2011, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted data from Gartner as indicating. This will be the second time global PC shipments register a decline since the dot-com bubble in 2001.”

Meanwhile, including tablets, growth of shipments is 14% per annum. Good-bye, Wintel. That ship has sailed. Talk of Wintel lasting forever or continuing to be the foundation of IT are clearly wrong. IT evolves and Wintel is too inefficient to adapt to the change. Wintel is locked in to inefficient ways and cannot compete. Even M$’s move to ARM is too little and too late. The world will reject raising the prices on ARMed devices just to prop up M$’s revenue and Intel will get little revenue from tablets for the same reason. Wintel cannot hide its high prices when consumers have seen small cheap computers everywhere.

see Global PC shipments to decline 0.4% in 2012, says paper.

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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

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