Sentence examples for demand for desktop from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Microsoft has faced waning demand for desktop PCs, which analysts say users aren't upgrading as often.

On the personal computer side, demand for desktop computers has slowed the most, but notebook demand has also weakened, company officials said.

Modest growth returned to the computer industry in the second quarter following a dip earlier this year, although consumer appetite for tablets continued to dampen demand for desktop and laptop PCs.

Mr. Daoud said the broader challenge for Acer and its competitors is that the demand for desktop computers has been sluggish in recent years and the products have increasingly become commodities.

The electricals specialists have not been the main beneficiaries of smartphone mania with many phones tied to network contracts, while collapse in demand for desktop computers has partly negated the tablets boom.

He said that with just a little bit of help from the economy, as well as increased demand for desktop replacement machines, Apple will perform well when the new computers based on the G5 chip begin selling.

Microsoft needs to ensure that its desktop-facing operating system manages to support the still-large demand for desktop-focused PCs well.

Benjamin Reitzes, a UBS analyst, said earlier that laptops will be a key market in 2007 PC sales because of a lag in demand for desktops.

According to Rau, AMD saw an increase in market share thanks to a pricing advantage over Intel and an increase in demand for desktops.

In the year 2000 a new rapid prototyping (RP) technology was developed at the Freiburg Materials Research Center to meet the demands for desktop fabrication of scaffolds useful in tissue engineering.

"Overall weakness in the global economy, softer consumer spending and lower channel demand for our desktop processors in China and Europe made the closing weeks of the quarter challenging," Rory Read, the president and chief executive of A.M.D., said in a statement.