Worldwide PC shipments have increased for the first time in six years

[WYP]

The PC market hasn't grown since Q1 2012.



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[Greenback]

I think you hit the nail on the head in your article, Sandy bridge has been good enough that there hasn't really been a need to upgrade AMD had nothing to offer and Intel only slight improvements that gaming wise gave little and cost to much £

 

[AlienALX]

Impressive, given the bum bleeding price of memory and SSDs etc.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The PCMR is on the rise again!

 

[g0ggles1994]

I think you hit the nail on the head in your article, Sandy bridge has been good enough that there hasn't really been a need to upgrade AMD had nothing to offer and Intel only slight improvements that gaming wise gave little and cost to much £

Yep, I'd agree pretty much nailed it as well. Plus from my experience, people only really replace them once they've kicked the Silicon Bucket.

I will say that whenever anyone has asked me to get them a new machine, I just tell them get a model that's a year or two old since the price on new machines is just stupid for such a little performance jump. I got my old ThinkPad laptop with an Ivy Bridge i3 in pretty much perfect condition for £150 after Broadwell came out and outperformed anything up to double that price.

 

[sheroo]

I still have 4 sandy/ivy PC's in the house, no need to upgrade they're all still doing fine...