US economy gives Intel's profits the 40lb box

[Thrax]

US economy gives Intel's profits the 40lb box (http://icrontic.com/news/us-economy-gives-intels-profits-the-40lb-box)

[UPSLynx]

first

[Thrax]

I'm now happy.

[UPSLynx]

but seriously though, is the economy effecting PCs that much? I haven't seen such decline myself, in fact I've had 3 friends buy/build new PCs within the last month or two... and I still have intentions to buy parts and the like for my computer.

Gamers need their fix, are they being squashed as well?

[Gnome Queen]

I was under the impression that gaming was the one industry that was NOT having problems. But since computers do not exist only for the pleasure of gamers, I can see why intel might be having problems. Also, clever title.

[primesuspect]

remember: It's not gamers that make these companies any money. It's when CompanyCorp orders 1,200 new desktop PCs for their Atlanta office.

CompanyCorp is not doing so well right now, and they're probably thinking that their 1200 employees can continue to be effective with their Celeron 1.7ghz Dells from three years ago that they're currently using instead of upgrading to the new model...

[Komete]

Yep, it's not really the home user but the companies. This year will be worse than last year. Especially if the release of win7 is pushed back.