According to Gartner Q4 2012 W. European PC shipments drop by -11.7% Y-o-Y to 15.3 million units, with declines across all PC segments as the market continues its shift towards tablets and mobile devices.
"The PC market in W. Europe is in a downward spiral," Gartner says. "In 2012, it experienced the 2nd consecutive year of decline, but less steeply than in 2011, when the PC market in W. Europe decreased -14%. The 2nd consecutive yearly decline indicates that the issues the PC market faces are beyond a weak economy, a poorly understood new OS, or Ultramobiles being priced too high to generate demand.”
Mobile and desktop PC shipments drop by -12.1% and -10.9% respectively in Q4 2012, the professional segment drops by -4.9% (a less severe decline thanks to replacement purchases) and consumer shipments decline by -17.6% Y-o-Y.
HP remains the W. European market leader, even if it lost share in the mobile and home PC segments (leading to a -8.8% Y-o-Y drop in shipments), with 21.5% market share thanks to leadership within the desktop and professional markets.
Designed to feed headphones or speakers (via 3.5mm jack), the DragonFly carries a 24-bit ESS Sabre DAC chip, 2 clocks and the Streamlength asynchronous USB data transfer protocol to ensure optimal, jitter-free digital-to-analog PC audio conversion. 
Speaking at the D: Dive Into Media conference, Microsoft head of interactive entertainment Yusuf Mehdi claims “all I’ll say about our current and future investment is [that it is] about doing things that are big and premium. Other people will try some lower-end things; what we will do is things that are big and beautiful.”
According to "an extremely reliable source," Google wants to offer hands-on experience to its customers, just as the competition (Apple and Microsoft) already does. 
Media Markt and Saturn stores will remain 
