Budget notebook PC demand crashes after riding the pandemic wave

Only about everything that goes up has to come down at some point, peculiarly when it comes to supply and demand economics. Such is the case with upkeep notebook PCs, which accept seen need reportedly collapse back to pre-pandemic levels.

The news comes from analyst firm Mercury Enquiry (via PCWorld). Though specific figures are deficient, the wide strokes of the demand shift are that cheap laptops were riding high with 180% growth across quarters Q4 2022 to Q2 2022. And so, Q3 2022 came along and sunk the ship almost instantly, returning Chromebook and notebook PC need to what it was before 'rona times.

Listen you, that doesn't hateful notebook PCs equally a whole are suffering or are in some state of peril. Strategy Analytics has skilful news to share near the health of the sector on the whole, though it likewise notes that Chromebooks in particular aren't having the outrageous successes of previous quarters. Even then, the figures on display are far from doom-and-gloom territory.

Not merely are notebooks equally a whole doing well, but as logic may suggest, the companies behind said hardware are also enjoying fruitful quarterly and almanac results. Lenovo in particular had a stiff past quarter, managing $17.9 billion in revenue, successfully trouncing whatsoever whispers that supply chain delays and shortages could derail success. With that said, the global semiconductor crisis did have an impact on Lenovo — but it was more in-line with a bump in the road than an all-out trainwreck.

Microsoft also had a successful previous quarter, though its Surface laptops took a bit of a hit due to similar supply issues.

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