Over the past couple of years, it’s been all doom and gloom for the PC market. Quarter after quarter, it experienced the kind of decline that is usually only seen in terminal cancer patients. People no longer felt compelled to upgrade as frequently we were told, especially as smartphones and tablets started to dominate their attention spans. Indeed, the boldest predictions asserted, those self-same mobile devices were rendering the PC a lumbering dinosaur, unnecessary in the modern world. Just as the shovels were getting ready to bury it once and for all however, the PC market’s started knocking softly from inside its coffin.
