Not surprised really that sales have dropped...

I was looking at an upgrade to my existing home computer and was astounded just at the sheer different choices of CPU (AMD X3, AMD X4, Intel i7, Intel Dual Core, Intel Centrino vPro etc...) and Motherboards (with their own various choices of chipset). Its simply too complicated now to choose what you are after (and would be a safe purchase to last for a couple of years).

Perhaps the rest of the world is doing what I'm doing and putting up with a slower machine (on XP) and then go for something when its settled down a bit.