PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected

[wraggster]

Zach Whittaker over at ZDNet covers an IDC report. In it the 2013 9.7% forecast decline in PC shipments is advanced to 10.1%. Further, IDC's longer-term forecast turns quite grim: contracting 23% from 2012 levels by 2017. There is also a projection of future Windows tablet sales, and a statement that total Windows tablet sales for 2013 are expected to be 'less than 7.5 million units.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...overy-expected

[the_eternal_dark]

Yet requests for custom gaming rigs and HTPC builds are up (and it's making me pretty good money).