New PCs won’t be going back to school

PCWorld: “Students will go back to school this year with freshly sharpened pencils, clean new notebooks, and maybe even new cell phones–but probably not a new personal
computer.

PC makers are glumly forecasting dismal back-to-school sales. And even as they slash prices that undermine their profits, the top PC vendors say any sales rise in
the season–one of the most important for the industry–will be subdued.”