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09:30 5th March 2009
More people are responding to the recession by trying to prolong the lives of their ageing PCs and avoiding buying a new one, according to ThinkGrid.
Rob Lovell, chief executive officer of the business IT provider, said that people are increasingly trying to avoid spending money in the current economic climate by updating the systems they already have.
He said that many updates and new applications are available for download from the internet, which is helping people to modernise their existing computers in a more cost-effective way.
Mr Lovell said: "Traditional businesses are stopping or slowing down in their rate of buying because they don't need new PCs to run these applications."
Programming courses could help people learn more about new applications available on the web and how computer systems can be upgraded with the minimum expenditure.
Gartner recently forecast that PC sales for 2009 will be nearly 12 per cent lower than last year's figure.
A decline of nearly ten per cent is expected in the number of worldwide mobile PC shipments.
