'Value PCs' costing less than $500 made up more than half of new PC sales in June for the first time, according to data from Current Analysis. The analyst firm based its findings on sales in retail stores in North America.
"The fact that a majority of consumers are paying less than $500 for a retail desktop computer is an onerous outlook for the industry in general," senior analyst Toni Duboise warned in a report. The average selling price of PCs in US retail stores dropped to $550 last June from $743 in July 2004 and $644 in July 2005. Duboise cited a lack of new technologies that usually drive customers towards higher end systems as another major cause for the rise of the value PC
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