alanm:

Not sure 1.4% quarter year on year is much significance. Bought a PC for my sisters household some 6 years ago and no one uses it. Everyones on tablets or phones. Getting up, sitting upright in a chair to face a screen does not seem worth the effort to many peeps anymore.

I work at a place that sells laptops, all in ones, desktops, monitors, and tablets. In the last year i have sold only 1 tablet myself, hundreds of laptops, a 20-30 all-in-ones, and probably around 10-20 desktops with monitors. Obviously i'm only one data point, however in contrast to 2012-2015, where it was hard to convince someone what they needed to do would be easier to do on a laptop, instead of a tablet, and outsold tablets to laptops/desktops/etc. immensely. Things have gone backwards so much so that instead of having twice to three times the amount of tablets then we do laptops on display and for sale, we now only have 3 tablets on display, and around 20 laptops on display, 8 all in-ones, and 6 desktops. And it's not that we don't have a lot of choices that they are deciding not to buy either, if i even look and say "here's your laptops, and your tablets over here" they more often then not don't even look over at the tablets, or say they are simply not interested. Now, i personally believe this has more to do with phones, people found they were still using their phones even if they had a tablet and probably kept asking themselves "Why do i even have this?", tablets, when it comes to smart phones being a norm for a cellphone, more often then not simply do not make sense. But people are still buying PCs, because they need what the PCs have that the phones and tablets can not do, or do not do as easily or as well. So it won't surprise me if this increase becomes a trend.

Andrew LB:

Steam hardware survey shows intel gaining in market share last month, which is surprising given how obnoxious their competitors fan-base had become

You think a hardware survey from a program that does not test all machines at any given time, happening to test more intel computers this last month due to its inherent flaw that doesn't even remotely make the monthly numbers mean anything, is important? That 0.11%? That percent thats so small, any legitimate testing facility would consider it a margin of error that doesn't mean anything? And you're here trying to tell people that the AMD fan-base has become "obnoxious" with statements like yours that mean nothing? Here, i'll paste what you seem to think is "important" for the rest to see. https://i.imgur.com/cULiupB.png Yeah, don't mind the overall trend you see there, the one that actually matters, the one that shows from February to June shows that AMD has captured almost twice the market share they had before. Lets not pay attention to that, lets only pay attention to you tooting Intels horn about its margin of error 0.11% increase. Next you'll be telling me that Single core CPUs are on the rise the next time it shows a positive, which it had a few months ago, based off these already known to be flaws in a system that does not check all computers and has no realistic way to know if a bunch of new ryzen or intel computers are being used and not some old, already recorded information. https://i.imgur.com/cy6HAnU.png