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Global PC sales decline in Q2 2026, marking the first drop after nine quarters of growth
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sanitationhttps://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/global-pc-shipments-fall-q2-2026
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(glances at tripling costs for ram, GPU, storage, now power)
Imagine my complete lack of surprise !
👁️👄👁️
because the money i’ve saved for a new pc would buy me a worse one than the one I have now.
On a related note, at wor k, after 5 years my laptop was deemed too old so they gave me a new one. It’s a strict downgrade.
Teens are getting priced out
Teens? Everyone.
I’m not a teen. But I care about teens and people in low income areas getting priced out.
The fact that this is only the FIRST quarter, is ridiculous - I am going off the assumption that PC is used as intended, a “Personal Computer” and not as a general catch-all for computing hardware (ie. including data centres)?
Not first ever quarter. Title here says it was 9 consecutive quarters of growth, but I understood it was 5 from the article (All of 2025 + Q1 2026)
It also seems to count laptops and desktops, not desktop hardware bought as individual components. Manufacturers may have had stockpiles for a while, Apple certainly managed to keep their old pricing through much of 2025 at least, if not part of 2026.
I suspect if you looked at individual PC components, the growth dropped off sooner, but I cba to look up the numbers
I need to go hug my PC.
don’t worry you can just subscribe to a PC that someone else owns for you ☺️ (he can also install and maintain it for you, and over time it’ll display more ads)