{"id":85267,"date":"2016-01-13T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85267"},"modified":"2016-01-13T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T12:12:51","slug":"pc-sales-reached-a-record-decline-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85267-pc-sales-reached-a-record-decline-in-2015","title":{"rendered":"PC sales reached a record decline in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS40909316\" target=\"_blank\">report from IDC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0shows that PC shipments fell by 10.6%, year-on-year, for the 4th quarter of 2015 \u2013 the biggest decline ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>According to a reprt by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/12\/pc-shipment-drop-is-worst-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a><\/strong>, Gartner\u2019s figures painted a marginally better picture \u2013 a drop of 8.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Asus were two brands which bucked the trend, with Q4 growth figures of 2.8% and 0.8% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>HP was the single biggest loser, dropping 10.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Engadget said industry analysts pegged the decline on longer PC upgrade cycles, in combination with the increase in powerful smartphones and tablets on the market.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/151911-pc-shipments-hit-record-low-decline.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More hardware news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/85249-some-of-the-coolest-gaming-hardware-from-ces-2016.html\">Some of the coolest gaming hardware from CES 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/85221-amds-zen-cpus-and-why-you-should-care.html\">AMD\u2019s Zen CPUs, and why you should care<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/85035-this-monstrous-pc-can-run-seven-games-on-seven-monitors-at-once-and-costs-a-cool-r475-000.html\">This monstrous PC can run seven games on seven monitors at once, and costs a cool R475, 000<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84079-your-baby-is-slowing-down-your-wi-fi.html\">Your baby is slowing down your Wi-Fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from IDC shows that PC shipments fell by 10.6%, year-on-year, for the 4th quarter of 2015 \u2013 the biggest decline ever recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":85269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1969,15397,241,16935,15121],"class_list":["post-85267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-sales","tag-shipments","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}