Saturday, February 10th 2007

Vista gives PC Sales a Nice Boost

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Jimmy 2004
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Windows Vista was officially released to the public on 30th January this year, and the "wow" effect seems to be working so far. During its first week, Vista contributed to a 73% jump in US PC sales compared to the previous week, and sales were up 67% compared to the same time last year. Home Premium accounted for 59% of desktop sales and 76% of notebook sales, whilst home basic made up 33% and 16% respectively, suggesting users prefer the more expensive version. The figures were collected from five of the major retailers, Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Staples and Radio Shack.
Source: Reg Hardware
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16 Comments on Vista gives PC Sales a Nice Boost

#1
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
that figures. i bet most those people were just holding out until vista was released.
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#3
niko084
Lazzer408There is a thread about this somewhere already. Oh yes, here it is.

forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=25127
LOL!


I have people calling me off the hook about can my computer run Vista?!?!?!?

Guh it's driving me nuts, I should tell them ALL NO! You need a new system I'll
build you this for $xxxx and take the old "USELESS" parts in on trade... Lucky I'm
a nice guy and wont do that to me clueless customers.
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#4
C.Ash
People who BUY vista are the stupidest.
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#5
BXtreme
and ppl who won't buy Vista after some time will be the stupidiest.
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#6
Lazzer408
BXtremeand ppl who won't buy Vista after some time will be the stupidiest.
I'll pay for it as soon as onsite support come with it for free. :)
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#7
BXtreme
sure, choice depends upon the user, hmm, maybe vista will be more in numbers after a couple of weeks .
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#8
jocksteeluk
the sales is down to the "vista certified" bit , shops in the uk are selling any under powered system with vista but to be honest if i were going to buy a full new system right now id expect it to come with vista although i wouldn't use it.
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#9
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Its almost tempting to though, aint it Niko? ::haha::
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#10
niko084
WarEagleAUIts almost tempting to though, aint it Niko? ::haha::
Indeed....
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#11
Scavar
niko084LOL!


I have people calling me off the hook about can my computer run Vista?!?!?!?

Guh it's driving me nuts, I should tell them ALL NO! You need a new system I'll
build you this for $xxxx and take the old "USELESS" parts in on trade... Lucky I'm
a nice guy and wont do that to me clueless customers.
I know I would be doing that hehe. And if anyone catches on.....just blame MS. hehe
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#13
Death Star
I laughed out loud when I saw where the statistics came from :laugh:
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#14
Saurian
Honestly, why build an operating system that will run on OLD junk. You shouldn't be running a brand new OS on <1Ghz computers. And honestly, 512 is pretty small these days. However, that IS a messup...it should run stripped down and run 512 with music and an internet tab open comfortably.

Ah well, better luck in 2009
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#15
lemonadesoda
If there has been an UP in computer sales... it's not due to Vista, but due to Intel Core 2 Duo etc. And Vista just happens to come with new PCs.

FULL STOP

Unless you can proove that Mac sales have decreased due to increasing market share of Windows boxes.
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#16
evil bill
New PCs have been shipping with a "free" Vista upgrade for about 3 months at least, but I guess most folks who buy ready built PCs from the High Street or places like Dell wouldn't be confident of upgrading their OS
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