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What was the mining market's impact on PC market? Surely it must've had some consequence on figures.
by Zealotux 8y ago
What was the mining market's impact on PC market? Surely it must've had some consequence on figures.
- foepys 8y agoNone. These stats only include completely assembled and ready-to-use PCs from Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc. Individual components like GPUs are not included.
- jjeaff 8y agoI wouldn't say none. The massive increase in GPU prices did spur some to buy prebuilt where otherwise, they would have built a custom machine. Many large companies that sell higher end machines didn't jack up their prices nearly as much as the graphics cards alone. Also, some miners were buying prebuilt systems to harvest the GPU, then out a cheaper GPU in it and sell it.
- kowdermeister 8y agoI guess the boom of all other forms of computing, smartphones, tablets, laptops... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=947&ei=ZPNJW5fdBsSa6AS0rZ_oBg&q=pc+vs+smartphone https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bi...