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The slowdown is due in part to intentional moves by the company to woo new TurboTax customers, including a potential free offering, as well as ongoing declines in the company’s desktop and Mailchimp businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Previous generations of the desktop machines faced supply shortages due to a global memory-chip shortage and high demand from AI users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The site, which can be accessed on desktop or as a mobile app, has over 200 million monthly active users, and is popular with gamers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
People in lower income brackets also are more likely to have a smartphone than a laptop or desktop computer, according to data from Pew Research Center.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
On the desktop, an app booted up with a circle of multihued lights that revolved slowly.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
When consumers moved from laptops and desktops to smartphones about 15 years ago, it produced a crisis in Silicon Valley.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
RTX Spark-powered laptops and desktops, made by the likes of Dell and Lenovo, will be available this autumn, Nvidia said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
In the 1970s, Banatao joined gatherings of the Homebrew Computer Club, a band of hobbyists and tinkerers that included Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and others who envisioned machines that could perch on desktops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Once students started using desktops from prison classrooms, he pre-loaded academic articles onto thumb drives they could explore offline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
The other two interviewers had asked a bunch of questions about how he’d handle various repairs of the company’s numberless desktops.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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