Sylvie Barak , Friday 12 September 2008. 14:54:00

The game’s up

QUANTA COMPUTER saw its revenues take a dive this August, something the company is apparently blaming on increased sales in netbooks. Sound Paradoxical? More units shipped, but less revenue coming in. This is a predicament which many a computer company is finding itself in lately as, increasingly, people pass up on spending a fortune on super fast quad-corePCs to buy little crotch-warming netbooks instead. The irony is that whilst Quanta’s revenues plunged some 18.5 per cent from last year, its netbook shipments are on the increase. In August the firm managed to dispatch some 3.1 million units, which is up a whole 0.2 million from the previous year….



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