Comments on: Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales

By: Built It and They Came

Built It and They Came — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:04:50 +0000

[...] Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales” RoughlyDrafted Magazine: “That has hit Microsoft particularly hard, resulting in an 11% drop in profits over its year ago quarter and plans to cut 5,000 jobs over the next year and a half. On the other hand, Apple posted its best quarterly results ever, with 9% growth in its Mac sales over the previous year.” [...]

By: Why Windows 7 is Microsoft’s next Zune — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Why Windows 7 is Microsoft’s next Zune — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:42:43 +0000

[...] Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales Bad news: Windows 7 no faster than Vista. The fact that Microsoft has borrowed its operating system strategy from Apple is also the reason why Windows 7 is no faster than Vista. Anecdotal excitement from Windows Enthusiasts aside, recent testing (by no less than PC World) has shown that Windows 7 does nothing to noticeably speed up PCs over the baseline performance of Vista. That’s a huge problem for PC makers and IT drones who have pushed back against Vista adoption in large measure because it was too slow. [...]

By: Takethe5th Picks and Pans » Blog Archive » Apple, Microsoft at Same Tipping Point

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:14:39 +0000

[...] Netbooks also hit on the broader Notebook/Laptop markets which in turn have been cannibalizing the desktop PC mark…As the NYTimes coverage from both the business and the technology side show, the Netbook is having [...]

By: Keep an Open Eye Eye, Sir » AAPL and MSFT Tipping Points

Keep an Open Eye Eye, Sir » AAPL and MSFT Tipping Points — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:26:20 +0000

By: Report: Apple and AT&T to partner on U-Verse, $99 Netbook — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:16:12 +0000

[...] Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales Why Windows 7 on Netbooks Won’t Save Microsoft [...]

By: Limulus

Limulus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:05:19 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/02/gartner_2009_pc_declines/

Gartner is making “dismal projections” for the 2009 PC market:

* worldwide PC shipments will decline by 11.9 per cent to 257 million units, what the company has characterized as the “sharpest unit decline in history”

But that’s not across the board:

* “desktops are falling, with shipments expected to be down 31.9 per cent”

* “mini-notebooks [aka netbooks, will see sales...] up 79.5 per cent” representing “eight per cent of total PC shipments”

Oh and speaking of netbooks:

* “Gartner says that the average netbook cost $450 in the United States in the fourth quarter [of 2008], but that will drop to $399 by the end of [2009].”

By: Why Windows 7 on Netbooks Won’t Save Microsoft — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:26:03 +0000

[...] Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales [...]

By: qka

qka — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:25:38 +0000

Are those laptops in the picture at the top netbooks? Boy, are they FAT!!

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:24:51 +0000

OH lovely. NPD announced today that iMac sales are down 6% this quarter, despite their inability to get data for online sales (and the retail stores tend to be tight-lipped as well).

The problem? Apple sells on value, not on price. Apparently they need to provide less value.

By: Jon T

Jon T — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:56:59 +0000

With Microsoft innovation driving people to go to last century hardware, the Wintel clonemakers must be very unhappy indeed…

Microsoft must be accruing some serious ill-will.