Corporate buying cycles continue to be the dominant factor in enterprise demand for new PCs
Vista fails to drive new PC sales
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24 May 2007, Robert Jaques , V3
Demand for new PCs has not been affected "significantly" by the delay to Microsoft's Windows Vista and its subsequent release, reports In-Stat.
The worldwide PC market is still on track to sell 300 million units in 2009, according to the high-tech market research firm's latest estimates.
"A short-term rise in PC demand is anticipated with the recent release of Vista," said In-Stat analyst Ian Lao.
"System sales that had been waiting for systems pre-loaded with Vista rather than XP are expected to work through sales channels in the next two quarters. But these sales represent an offset from last year rather than new demand creation."
The In-Stat report found that corporate buying cycles continue to be the dominant factor in enterprise demand for new PCs.
Memory manufacturers are likely to see the most benefit from Vista, with an increase of over 20 per cent annually through the end of the decade.
The average consumer wanting Vista is more likely to purchase an entire new system instead of a system upgrade, In-Stat reports.
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VISTA ON NEW COMPUTERS
I have been helping a friend purchase a new laptop, her computer knowledge being limited. Her budget was £500, so I suggested an Intel or AMD processor, with 512MB Ram & 60GB+ hard drive as miniumum she should aim for.
Imagine my horror when she arrived back with a Packard Bell from PC World with this spec.which had W. Vista Premium installed. Your articles all state that 1GB Ram is min. required for this level - the computer is extremely slow.+ it did not have an internal modem, so her old broadband wired modem, was useless so she had to buy a new wireless router. Really suppliers of PC Worlds calibre should be helping buyers, and not be supplying this level of Vista on lower spec machines + I thought that at this early stage of production of Vista you would still have the choice of having W.XP?
Posted by Stephanie, 30 May 2007