Gartner's latest data show PC shipments continuing to slide
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Remember about six months ago when we thought the PC market might have stabilized? Yeah, maybe not so much. That report from a while back came from IDC, but now Gartner posted preliminary results from its Q2 2017 analysis of the PC industry. The new data shows that 4.3% fewer units were shipped during last quarter versus the same time last year. The final worldwide tally comes to 61.1 million units shipped, compared to 63.9 million for the same period in 2016. The company posits that high system prices due to component shortages were the largest cause for the slump.
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