Invigorating Himachal Tour Package

Arrive and check in to the hotel, evening at leisure.

Full day excursion to Solang Valley.

However, the picture isn't quite so gloomy if you're a market leader like Lenovo, which shipped 59.8 million PCs in 2018, 58m in 2017 and 55.5m in 2016, according to IDC. Market shares for Lenovo and HP -- who have traded the number-one spot in recent years -- have been rising, at the expense of other PC vendors (Figure H).

The company's flagship PC product line is its ThinkPad range of premium business laptops, which was acquired along with the rest of IBM's PC business in 2005 for $1.25bn. IBM's first ThinkPad was the 700C, released in 1992 with the now-classic Richard Sapper-designed black livery and red accents -- including the distinctive TrackPoint -- all in place from the start. Fast-forward to 2018, over 100 million ThinkPad sales later, and we have the 6th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which clearly retains its 26-year design heritage.

Reduced demand from hyperscale companies depressed server market growth rates in Q4 from the heights of earlier quarters (38% in Q3, 44% in Q2, 39% in Q1). But, said Sebastian Lagana, research manager, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies, at IDC, "This was offset by increased server sales to enterprise customers and higher average selling prices (ASPs). Enterprises are buying richly configured servers to support resource intensive workloads, resulting in higher ASPs [Average Selling Prices] and pushing revenue growth higher than growth from unit shipments."

However, even in states with policies like nondiscrimination laws and processes to update identity documents, "trans people still face a lot of challenges at work, finding housing, and even using the restroom, in addition to challenges accessing the kind of healthcare they need," Goldberg said.

Barry Warsaw was one of the 20 or so developers present at that first-ever workshop for the newly-created Python programming language and recalls the palpable excitement among those early users.

"I can remember one person in particular who said, 'You cannot tell anybody that I'm here because our use of Python is a competitive advantage.' It was their secret weapon, right?"

The programming language was started as a side project by Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum. In the late 1980s, van Rossum was working on a distributed system at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Dutch national research center for math and computer science. Frustrated by the inadequacies of existing programming languages, he decided to create a new one -- one that would be both easy-to-use and capable.