On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 10:40:10 +1300, I wrote:

... the year of the desktop?

Soon it might only be Lenovo standing http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/lenovo-in-talks-to-buy-fujitsus-loss-making-pc-business/.

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 11:04:53 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

Boy, that's some "consolidation" happening at the moment...

Gartner is forecasting annual “traditional” PC sales to drop below 200 million by 2018 http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2016/10/06/fujitsu_in_talks_to_bale_from_pc_market_lenovo_one_of_the_suitors/.

Considering they peaked at about 360 million not too many years ago, doesn’t look like it’ll be long before they reach just half that level...