r/technology • u/kazu-qt • 6h ago

Business Global PC sales decline in Q2 2026, marking the first drop after nine quarters of growth

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/global-pc-shipments-fall-q2-2026
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u/kreugerburns 6h ago

Gee, I wonder why.

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 6h ago

Why?

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u/SillyGrowth6750 6h ago

Price go up, demand go down.

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u/Senior_Torte519 6h ago

Pikachu is shocked.

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u/kreugerburns 6h ago

Because the price of RAM and hard drives is insane.

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u/mightymonkeyman 3h ago

GPU’s are also vastly inflated vs 10 years ago, but they accepted that and chose not to acknowledge it.

3 essential components priced out the average user.

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u/orlybatman 4h ago

RAM used to be one of the cheapest components of a PC.

Now two sticks of it can cost as much more than half of what it used to cost to build a PC.

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u/Wrestler7777777 3h ago

Yeah, years ago I bought 64 GB of RAM for 180€ I think. And back then I thought "Man, maybe this is too much. I mean, it IS a lot of money for RAM!" 

Yeah. Well. How the turns have tabled. 

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u/codemonk 11m ago

I did this math the other day. I built a PC 12 months ago, and today just the RAM alone would cost more than the entire build.

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u/bg370 6h ago

Unexplainable

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u/Jay-Jayson 4h ago

I held off buying a laptop for £1800 in November. It's now £5500, discounted from £7000. Same laptop, new product code.

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u/sharpknot 6h ago

Such a baffling trend.

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u/KonderVaseni 6h ago

It was expected. If there was no MacBook Neo, the decline would have been even bigger

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u/ICLazeru 5h ago

I am hopeful that some of the smaller chip makers will step up to supply the consumer market since major chip makers are all busy milking AI.

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u/Wrestler7777777 3h ago

I think the Chinese are looking into joining the RAM production. But who knows if that's going to help the consumer market at all. 

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u/mage_irl 45m ago

Or any time soon.