eWeek writes, The PC industry is in the midst of a worrisome slump. As tablet sales soar and consumers continue to put down their notebooks for an iPad, PC makers are finding that sales are on the downturn. Recently, research firm Gartner revealed that PC shipments were down 8.3 percent year-over-year during the third quarter of 2012, landing at 87.5 million units. Last year, the PC market shipped 95.4 million units worldwide. Another research firm, IDC, offered up similarly sobering third-quarter data, saying that the PC market was down 8.6 percent from the same period last year. That company said 87.8...