Re: any statistics on declining PC sales?

From	keithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: any statistics on declining PC sales?
Date	2015-09-08 21:23 +1000
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On 8/09/2015 3:12 PM, news13 wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:48:18 +0800, Clocky wrote:
>
>> On 7/09/2015 4:50 PM, news13 wrote:
>>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:30:28 +0800, Clocky wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I always find it amusing that these PC assemblers and part swappers
>>>> call themselves "technicians" when they wouldn't even know which end
>>>> of a soldering iron is the handle.
>>>
>>>
>>> If it requires a "soldering iron" to repair, then it is uneconomic
>>> repair. Rarely been otherwise in PCs.
>>>
>>>
>> Used to be commonplace in the early days and I still do board level
>> repairs from time to time.
>
> Define "early days". I know tech who have replaced all the components on
> main frame boards, to see if they can do it or as employment, but I've
> never met anyone who bothered "repairing" a PC motherboard. It was always
> cheaper to bin and replaced at my buy level. Also exceedingly faster.

In the early/middle 90s I was working for a 3rd party service mob 
looking after IBM mainframe gear at one of the big banks. We used to 
repair boards to the component level for two reasons, new parts were 
very expensive (everything from IBM is) and some of the gear was so old 
that new parts weren't even available.

>> You're missing the point however.
>
> You want to claim some sort of elitism?
> I've just never seen the point, even when I did come across a few mobo's
> with buldging caps. All my customers saw the benefit of a few dollars
> extra for a new mobo vs a repaired mobo.
>

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any statistics on declining PC sales? bruce56@topmail.co.nz - 2015-09-05 19:52 -0700
  Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-09-06 11:57 +0800
    Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:10 +1000
      Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-09-06 12:23 +0800
        Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-06 15:24 +1000
          Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 17:51 +1000
        Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 17:33 +1000
    Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-06 15:07 +1000
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        Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2015-09-06 19:43 +1000
          Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:19 +0000
  Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:05 +1000
    Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-06 15:27 +1000
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      Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2015-09-07 05:42 +0000
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      Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-07 15:30 +0800
        Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2015-09-07 08:50 +0000
          Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2015-09-07 21:19 +1000
            Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-07 21:48 +1000
            Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-07 20:51 +0800
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                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-09 16:02 +0800
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                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2015-09-21 23:08 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-21 23:17 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 05:45 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2015-09-08 20:50 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-09 16:04 +0800
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                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "jonz" <me@there.com> - 2015-09-19 19:40 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-21 06:42 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 08:58 +1000
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                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-09-27 12:37 +1000
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              Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2015-09-08 19:30 +1000
              Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2015-09-08 20:42 +1000
          Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-07 20:48 +0800
            Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 04:29 +1000
              Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-08 07:08 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2015-09-08 05:15 +0000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-09 16:11 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 05:52 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-21 06:47 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 09:00 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-21 15:02 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 08:58 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-21 14:39 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-21 15:16 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 19:45 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 20:33 +1000
            Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2015-09-08 05:12 +0000
              Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-09-08 16:22 +1000
              Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2015-09-08 21:23 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? news13 <newsthirteenspam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2015-09-08 14:10 +0000
              Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-09 16:08 +0800
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 05:50 +1000
                Re: any statistics on declining PC sales? Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-09-21 06:55 +0800
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