The recession of 2001 caused decreased sales for PC companies. What strategies did they develop to survive?

Question

In 2001 PC COMPANIES were affected by the recession. They were forced to develop new competitive strategies to survive. Identify strategies and will they survive this recession

Answer 1

They used marketing very extensively, in general they have promoting more powerfull solutions which required to change not only processors but also motherboards, memory, video-cards because of incompatibility with previous technology.