because the money i’ve saved for a new pc would buy me a worse one than the one I have now.
On a related note, at wor k, after 5 years my laptop was deemed too old so they gave me a new one. It’s a strict downgrade.
don’t worry you can just subscribe to a PC that someone else owns for you ☺️ (he can also install and maintain it for you, and over time it’ll display more ads)
(glances at tripling costs for ram, GPU, storage, now power)
Imagine my complete lack of surprise !
Teens are getting priced out
Teens? Everyone.
👁️👄👁️
The fact that this is only the FIRST quarter, is ridiculous - I am going off the assumption that PC is used as intended, a “Personal Computer” and not as a general catch-all for computing hardware (ie. including data centres)?
Not first ever quarter. Title here says it was 9 consecutive quarters of growth, but I understood it was 5 from the article (All of 2025 + Q1 2026)
It also seems to count laptops and desktops, not desktop hardware bought as individual components. Manufacturers may have had stockpiles for a while, Apple certainly managed to keep their old pricing through much of 2025 at least, if not part of 2026.
I suspect if you looked at individual PC components, the growth dropped off sooner, but I cba to look up the numbers
