![]() Superfish injected ads in action on the Apple website. ![]() There’s simply no real money to be made on dirt-cheap hardware. PC vendors make little to no money on such slim margins, which is a core part of the reason HP is splitting off its PC division (again), Dell took itself private, and Sony and Samsung have bowed out of the PC industry to varying degrees. Mainstream personal computers are a cut-throat business prices have been racing to the bottom for years now. ![]() While that sounds good on paper, deep down it’s actually troubling news for the PC industry. The NPD group says that the average selling price of Windows computers fluctuated between just $415 and $430 in October 2014-10 percent lower than prices a year earlier, and a new low watermark for PCs. But good news! Prices are plummeting in the wake of dirt-cheap Chromebooks and Microsoft’s resulting counter-attack. Money’s tight, and even the cheapest PCs are a major, multi-hundred dollar investment. Sony sold off its Vaio PC line and exited the computing industry completely in early 2014.
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