Comments on: Europe tops North America as largest PC market

For the first time, the European region ships more PCs than the U.S., reaching 72.6 million.

[Dachi]

Since when did

The midddle east and Africa become part of "Europe"? I guess I should have spent more time on school work and less time drinking beer when I was in school.

In other news, the weak American dollar + the Japaneese Yen + the Chineese Yuan surpassed half the value of the euro.

[wazzledoozle]

Oh but since...

China is now part of Europe, They use the Euro too!

[xtuser]

Wow.

What are you on? Sorry, but I just don't get it.

[Ian O'Shaughnessy]

makes sense after all

nowadays, American computers can stand the test of time... just
ask my friend and his now 6 year old computer that still
outperforms most other ones...and on the other hand, other
nations are now just starting to replace their old computers, so it
stands to reason that they take in more than America for a
change... makes sense after all, doesn't it?

[assman]

no chance

theres no way in hell that a 6 year old computer can possibly out perform recent computers, thats just completely false.

[Mutex]

Lol, what?

Europe has more consumers. That's all.

[rblanchette]

Non-story

Let's compare per-capita purchases. There are only 290 million people in the USA and there are 700 million in Europe. So their per-capita purchasing is less than half of the USA.

There is another problem with this story also. What countries did they include as Europe? The current members of the EU?

Hey news.com, why don't you give us stories that really say something instead of a sensational headline with no meaningful information.

[Peter Bonte]

Europe = EU

Practically all country's outside the EU are almost 3e world
economy's, 90% of the European computer sales are in the EU.

What did strike me is the Middle East and African region that
together only bought 2,5 million computers.