PC shipments in Q1 faced their biggest known drop to date

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If Windows 8 is the ticket to a bounce-back in PC sales, it's going to be a long, slow recovery. At least, as long as you ask IDC. It estimates that worldwide computer shipments in the first quarter of 2013 fell 13.9 percent to 76.3 million, which is the steepest quarterly drop the research firm has recorded since it started tracking PCs back in 1994.

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I think the reason for the drop could be people buying used and refurbished computers from eBay, Amazon, and Craigslists where it is harder to track how many PCs are sold because most sales on eBay, and Craigslists are anonymous, or not publicly known unlike buying a PC from a big box store like Bestbuy.

Many people who need a PC would build or upgrade their own PCs to save money.

A lot of people can also get free used computers from their parents, cousins, siblings, etc who upgraded their computers to a new PC, or switch to tablet, or smartphone, and have no need for a PC.

People who do not really need PCs buy smartphones, and tablets which are good enough for e-mail, online banking, video, music, and web browsing with the onscreen virtual keyboard, or an optional keyboard dock or keyboard cover like the keyboard cover for the MS Surface tablets.
 
I read one of the reasons that PC are declining is because people who bought cheap netbooks with Windows 7/8 are now switching to smartphones and tablets which can be bought for $99 or less if you buy cheap Chinese and Taiwanese branded Tablets and Smartphones.

Windows Netbooks were a large percentage of Windows PC sales before tablets became mainstream since the netbook was cheap, and good enough for most people who were on a budget, and a lot of people bought netbooks because the Netbook is an impulse buy since you can get a Netbook for $299or less back in 2009.

But, the Ultrabook replace the Netbook, but most Ultrabooks cost $1000 or more dollars, so fewer people bought them. I read the Ultrabook was a failure as well since not many people bought them because they were too expensive, and did not have a CD/DVD drive.
 
People using phones, and tablets are most likely the case for a lot of people since a lot of phones and tablets also let you plug in a keyboard and mouse with USB, or use bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse.

If you need a bigger screen, you can use Apple's Airplay with the Apple TV settop box connected to a monitor, and a lot of Android, Windows 8, and Blackberry tablets have a Micro-HDMI port to connect a tablet to a TV to use like a settop box, or desktop computers.

There are also now hybrid tablets like the Surface PRO/RT and Asus Transformer Prime which acts like a laptop when connected to a keyboad, and becomes a tablet when not connected to a keyboard.
 
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