Scott, re: "Anyone have an opinion on whether businesses are buying sub 1000 pcs? Or, are we talking about home pcs?
Businesses, except those on a shoestring, will not be buying sub $1000 PCs, at least not now. One thing companies loathe is constantly upgrading their PC farms. They like to do it, then, hopefully, not have to do it again for three years or so. The minimum new order PC here today would be a 166 MHz MMX, probably 64 MB memory, 4.3 GB HD, etc. That would be for MS Office stuff, although for complex spread sheet stuff in Finance or Accounting, P II or PPro based machines are used. These machines, in their applications, should last three years. For software development or CAD the fastest PPro or P II (or duals) currently available and within reason, would be specified.
People have been looking at the future growth of PCs from many, many different angles. Another way to look at the future of PCs is that the two fastest growing high tech areas, software and network development, are using them up at a very rapidly growing rate. With most of the rest of all industries also going heavily to software for automation, and to the Internet and Intranets for communications, again, the use of PCs, workstations and servers should keep growing fast. And, if the economy stays out of trouble, companies will be buying a lot as they grow.
Re Please keep in mind that businesses buy 80% of the pcs made.
I don't have any numbers, on biz vs. home split, but this sounds much too heavy on the biz side.
Regards,
Tony |
