Cheap as chips

Everybody wants a better priced PC to boost sales and it looks like Lenovo is listening.

According to the latest reports, moving production back to China has seen Lenovo increase its market share at the expense of Dell and HP.

Part of the company’s success is being attributed to the mix-and-match options with both Intel and AMD chips inside the boxes.

With news that Intel has missed sales targets thanks to AMD’s aggressive pricing, more vendors are likely to be extricating themselves from single-supplier deals as fast they can rewrite the contracts. Surely most customers no longer care what sort of engine is under the hood, as long as the thing works as advertised and the price is right.

Are you getting requests from customers for Intel-powered PCs or do they just want fast and cheap, no matter who makes the innards?