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A typical price for most of the services for storing 10 gigabytes is around $200 a year per PC.
In the first quarter of 2010, the weighted average profit per PC was $15.71 - a 2.55% margin.
If Lenovo's "no bloatware" idea becomes popular, it will slice dollars per PC off its profitability – but also others'.
The profit per PC has also dropped substantially in the same period, from nearly $50 per PC to just just over $37 now, though in the previous quarter it was just over $32.
But we can calculate a "weighted average profit per PC" by looking at the profitability of each company, and weighting that by the number of PCs shipped.
As Microsoft historically makes about $56 in Windows licence revenue – and $39 in profit – per PC, the numbers for lost revenues and profits are straightforward to calculate.
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Those could double their per-PC profit".
(Dell's per-PC profits are calculated from its total PC revenues and its consumer segment profits).
(So the overall per-PC cost of manufacture, sales and marketing was just under $599).
That metric gives a hardware per-PC profit which has dropped from $241 to $232 - an erosion, certainly, but a margin that Windows PC makers would kill for: it's more than 10 times greater than their per-PC profit.
(The per-PC manufacturing/marketing/sales cost fell to $529. It's getting cheaper to produce PCs - but the price they're being sold for is falling too).
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