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Shipments up a whopping 90+% in Q4 despite industry-wide shortages Paul Kunert Tue 16 Feb 2021 // 11:30 UTC Share Copy The one-device-per-person trend caused by the pandemic fuelled a boom in notebook sales across Britain in Q4 that resulted in a near year-on-year doubling of shipment growth. According to sales data from IDC, almost 4 million PCs were sold in the three months ended 31 December, a jump of 58.5 per cent. Desktops accounted for 439,000 of these, down 33 per cent, and laptops jumped by 90.8 per cent to 3.554 million units. Liam Hall, senior research analys...

Wed, Jan 27th 2021 8:04pm — Timothy Geigner As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, one of the main points of contention has been how to handle schools. Some countries sent all students home to keep them from spreading the virus. Other countries made schools the last thing they shut down, if they ever did, arguing that schools haven't been a major source of transmission and teaching kids is too important to shut down. Here in America, most states did a hybrid model, choosing the absolute worst of both worlds. Teachers get hamstrung having to teach students both locally and remotely...

Lockdown now demands that millions of parents have to juggle work and their children's schooling from home. Yet despite this, a third of families do not have the computers they need. The Daily Mail is campaigning to ensure all Britain's pupils are equipped with a laptop or tablet - so no child is prevented from learning in lockdown.  But it's not just a lack of hardware causing difficulties. As this newspaper reveals today, almost one million children do not have access to broadband at home, which they need to do lessons. Digital divide: A third of families do not have the computers they nee...