The market for traditional PCs grew 13.1% year over year for the full year 2020 with the catalysts being work from home, remote learning, and restored consumer demand.
Having built many custom PCs over the years, I can only appreciate the superb finish and competent performance on offer here. Also, after doing the math on comparable components, Dell’s pricing for the OptiPlex 7070 Ultra seems like good bang for the buck.
As restrictions around the world tightened in the first few weeks of the quarter, demand for notebooks continued to grow to maintain continuity of business and schooling for many communities.
The Intel CPU shortage opened opportunities for alternative CPU vendors, namely AMD and Qualcomm, to reposition their processors in the PC market where Intel is dominant.
The results slightly outperformed the forecast, which called for a decline of 4.7%, but also produced the largest year-on-year decline since the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16) and capped the full year at a nearly flat rate of -0.4%.
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 60.4 million units and recorded flat (0.0%) year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18).
Asus, one of the world's largest computer sellers, has launched a Republic of Gamers (ROG) Gaming Experience Zone at its concept store at Cyberzone SM Lanang in Davao City, the first of its kind in the Philippines.
