> That came as a surprise to me. I would have expected it to be up since so many are stuck at home and desktop computing remains the premium home computing expe

> That came as a surprise to me. I would have expected it to be up since so many are stuck at home and desktop computing remains the premium home computing experience. Couldn't that be down to what data they track? From the looks of it they are only tracking OEM vendor sales of pre-built desktop systems. But what I've observed these past months during the pandemic is that a lot of people have picked up PC building, an observation that's collaborated by new hardware (Nvidia Ampeere cards, AMD Zen 3) being in super high demand to such a degree that in many places supply is struggling to fill demand.