Chennai: PCs have become an essential part of our daily lives in today’s hyper-connected world. People have become highly conscious of ramping up their productivity to free up more time.
As per the recent ‘PC Health and Upgrade’ study , consumers are looking to upgrade their PC components to extend their computing devices’ life and enhance productivity.
The research found that over 51 per cent of the respondents feelthat upgrading from HDD to SSD is critical for enhancing their PC performance.
However, more than 80 per cent of PCs in the country are still supported by HDDs,and four in five PCs have 500GB as internal capacity, both of which exacerbate performance-related issues in PCs.
Predominantly used for productivity linked applications, the survey by Western Digital also finds that a PC has become an all-purpose device today.
Consumers buy PCs and laptops for a variety of reasons such as, generic computing (62.5 per cent), productivity (59.3 per cent), entertainment (57.6 per cent), education (57.2 per cent), social networking (55 per cent), video conferencing (43.6 per cent), gaming (42 per cent), multimedia creation (36.6 per cent) and only 4.4 per cent of the respondents use them for other activities.