{"id":990401,"date":"2026-02-07T08:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990401"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:04:02","slug":"indians-show-no-urge-to-press-buy-button-for-ai-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/indians-show-no-urge-to-press-buy-button-for-ai-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians show no urge to press buy button for AI PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for personal computers with hardware that can handle artificial intelligence tasks, or AI PCs, is cooling faster than expected globally and India isn\u2019t an exception. Gartner has cut its 2026 global forecast for AI PCs to 49% of total PC shipments from the 55% estimate it made in late 2025 as buyers are reluctant to pay higher prices while waiting for software that can justify the upgrade. <\/p>\n<p>As they cost 20-40% more than regular models, many buyers still don\u2019t see a clear reason to pay more for on-device AI features, analysts said. At the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Dell acknowledged that consumers aren\u2019t as enthusiastic about AI PCs as had been expected. That&#8217;s prompted the company to get back to its &#8220;roots with a renewed focus on consumer and gaming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for personal computers with hardware that can handle artificial intelligence tasks, or AI PCs, is cooling faster than expected globally and India isn\u2019t an exception. Gartner has cut its 2026 global forecast for AI PCs to 49% of total PC shipments from the 55% estimate it made in late 2025 as buyers are reluctant to pay higher prices while waiting for software that can justify the upgrade. As they cost 20-40% more than regular models, many buyers still don\u2019t see a clear reason to pay more for on-device AI features, analysts said. At the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}