Computer sales slowing down

Sales in the personal computer have fallen quite sharply recently according to some leading market analysts. The PC market is in a great need to have some new hot selling product to hit the market to stop the trend in falling sales, unfortunately this is probably not going to happen anytime too soon.

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The PC market throughout the world has basically slowed down to nothing more than a crawl this past 12 months.  Sales are expected to rise just .9% for a second year running.

It is thought a major reason for the slow in PC sales is the rise in popularity of smart phones and tablets such as the iphone and ipad. This has also been helped by the wait on windows 8 being released and consumers being reluctant to splurge out on a new PC until this new operating system is released. If most consumers are as thought, waiting for the new Microsoft windows 8 operating system to be released then maybe critics of the new OS should be listened to. There are some hurdles that will come initially on release. Consumers will have to get used to the new look and feel of the OS which is not always as straight forward as it sounds. The operating system will have a complete over hall on the look and feel and this might not be welcomed by some people. It might take some time to educate the new market to the new way of thinking.

With the release of the new ultra book type designs coupled up with the ne windows 8 look and feel this could be a marriage made in heaven and good result in an upturn in sales in the New Year. It is predicted that over 350 million PCs will be sold this year, only up slightly from last year.

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House prices continuing to fall

House prices have once again fallen in the month of august, by the biggest percentage yet according to some leading house market experts .This is thought to have something to do with people watching the Olympics and putting their house hunting to one side for the 2 week period. It said there was quite an aggressive 2.4% fall in house prices due to sellers dropping their asking price to combat the lack of interest in their property. Usually there is only a smaller 1.1% fall in house sales in the month of august in previous years studies suggest.

It is said the current tough economic climate continues to harm the housing market and that house sellers will have combat this by competing hard to attract buyers to their property over the autumn months when the housing market usually picks up the a high level of activity after the seasonal midsummer slump. Buyers tend to like to move into their new property in time for Christmas and this drives the pick of sales in this period. No region in the UK saw any kind of raise in sales over august and trend of falling house prices was said to be nationwide.

London continues to have a year on year rise of about 8% but this is quite unique as the property market is largely driven by international investors and it is not a fair reflection on the UK market as a whole. On a year to year basis, England and Wales house prices were up about 2% from the previous year and this is a more fair reflection of the current situation.

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