I come from a country with a long history of providing migrants to the rest of the world, which has now become a country of destination. |
Rumors of the death of the desktop are greatly exaggerated. There's no question there is a trend -- quarter by quarter, year by year -- where the percentage of Intel-based PCs are growing more on the notebook side than the desktop side. |
The commercial enterprise market that we serve continues to require desktops because there are, frankly, a lot of roles that don't require mobility or their requirements are kind of modest. |
The movement to notebooks for people who are largely not mobile workers and were doing it because of lower heat and smaller space requirements, that part of the trend flattened out a bit as we got to very small form factor desktops and LCD monitors becoming more affordable. |
The sale of the desktop PC in itself is really not a profitable business model. It certainly was 15 to 20 years ago when the prices were 10 times what they are now and the margins higher than that. |