The end of this year Outlook: how could save the PC market in 2010-3
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In 2009, the PC market, the cottage the Internet has gone from crazy to the collapse of the process, but this is not the collapse of the brand online, in fact, Internet PC market, this is still the main growth driver. Data show that Internet sales of shares in this account more than 20% of all notebooks. In 2009 the Internet this year shipments are expected Acer Aspire 8920G battery to more than 35 million units.
Since its inception in 2007, Internet awareness of this product have soared, and ultimately usher in cottage manufacturers to enter. In the second half of 2008, the Internet can be said to have entered the peak period, almost all of the industry’s leading PC is often involved in this area. In fact, the Internet for PC manufacturers to bring the good sales figures, which the financial crisis become more important.
After the peak must be dropped. A lower technical threshold sparked a cottage blind entry, price competition also entered the disordered state, plummeted from 4,000 yuan, the brand was down to 1999 yuan in this online. Some cottage even play below the price of 1,000 yuan. Acer Aspire 6920 battery
Consequences of the Internet in this market is rapidly shrinking profit margins.
From the product itself, the Internet location of this feature is not entirely a notebook, is the second PC. However, when the manufacturers the publicity did not emphasize this point, many for the first time the user has chosen to buy notebooks online book, that can be used to office entertainment. Results are very disappointing, Internet this fact can not do anything. Narrow version of the keyboard and the screen is difficult to adapt to other users. The performance is even more out of the question, the Internet can only be used in this fact, browsing the web, view email, chat, Acer Aspire 8920 battery in order to film the game is impossible.
External disorder lack of competition and the product itself led to the Internet in mid-2009 to enter in this short period of confusion. The most affected cottage manufacturer, have closed down or restructuring. Internet brands are cool-headed thinking of this in their own development, the frequency of introduction of new products began to slow down and focus on the quality of the product itself, and personalization. In fact, this is also the Internet should have some trends.
In the first quarter of 2010, Intel will continue to release new access to this platform, access to this market will enter a new stage of development. The idea that the Internet prior to the annual decline in 2010, and even the “Internet of this,” a title will disappear. Another view is that the Internet this would still have to grow rapidly. From the current market analysis, access to the Internet next year, this market does not like the last year or this year’s ups and downs, but will continue to advance in the steady.
Outlook 6: Touch & 3D & Games Video of the
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Touch screen and 3D technology in the application of computers has begun to show a new development trend, Acer Aspire 7720G battery integrated computer and notebook computers has been achieved on both touch-screen operation, the only lacking is the technology itself optimization and application follow-up.
3D technology, we can see that NVIDIA launched a 3D three-dimensional magic mirror technology, AMD will also be in January 2010 publication of the CES trade show related technology programs. Currently, Acer and Asus have launched to support 3D technology, notebook computers, will experience by wearing glasses. Touch screen and 3D technology in the future of computer games and entertainment will play an increasingly important role, and can further deepen the human-computer interaction experience.
Entertainment video games in 2009 high-end notebook actually do not imagine hot, the financial impact of the crisis is one of the reasons that consumers purchase notebook to be more careful calculations, is no longer simply the pursuit of high distribution. Another reason is the concern that the market itself is limited.
But the video game market is still the high-end notebooks have their own market space in 2010 will continue to grow, but the overall look is still maintained at a stable level, there will be no ups and downs. The data provided in our ZDC, there are nearly 10% of users expressed concern about the market. High-end gaming notebook market share Acer Aspire 7720Z battery of audio and video in fact very much related to the standard of living in the out of the financial crisis, after the market in 2010 there may be a new development.
Outlook 7: Tablet PC & Other
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Tablet
Tablet PCs are expected to start in 2010 into the first year of development, the biggest driving factor is the apple, in addition to Dell, ASUS, HP and other vendors want to push flat-panel product rumors. From another perspective, Tablet PC may be towards the development of multimedia applications, such as e-books. In fact, e-book can be seen as a form of tablet PCs, but highlighted the function of reading digital books. In addition, the Tablet PC there will be many more applications, but all the development needs of technology and application support, perhaps next year will be the first year of the Tablet PC.
Windows 7
Many people think that Windows 7 prior to the promotion of PC market growth will become a major factor, and in the latter half of 2010 revealed. In fact, in promoting the role of Windows 7 is a necessity, because it solves some of the problems left over Vista, according to the natural order of product development, Windows 7 will naturally be gradually replaced by Vista (now hard to completely replace XP), will be on the PC play a role in promoting market growth.
Summary
PC industry in the past few years an alarming pace of development, in particular the decline of the price. A few million have been stepped down computer products, PC products began to be classified as a kind of consumer goods, the future will be further differentiated, as well as personalized design evolution. On the whole, mainstream notebook PCs will continue moving in the performance of the two direction thin fuselage, and occupy a larger market share; desktop computer will still occupy a certain market share, one desktop computer is the development of another a form; the Internet this will be to maintain a certain market share, in the steady advance.
To explore in this article are only visible point of PC market growth, there are products with technical highlights. From this year’s market point of view, perhaps next year’s PC market, there will be a new growth point of the outbreak, as well as the year before this year’s Internet this CULV.
