I have to wonder how much of the sales drop can be attributed to market saturation. In proportion to the entire computer market, there probably aren't many first-time buyers left and upgrading provides a smaller incremental improvement in performance with each generation of hardware.
Computers have been both fast and cheap for some time and perhaps most of the people or businesses who want to buy or upgrade have already done so.
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