Notebook Sales Exceed Desktop Sales
Notebook V/S Desktop: Gadgets Comparsion
Today’s notebooks are sleek, stylish and eminently portable. They allow your small business to take the company on the road in the space of a carry-on bag. Now, for the first time ever, notebook (laptop) sales have surpassed desktop sales, according to research firm iSuppl.
In the 3rd quarter of 2008, notebook PC shipments rose almost 40% compared with the same period of 2007 to reach 38.6 million units. Conversely, desktop PC shipments declined by 1.3 %for the same period to 38.5 million units.
“Momentum has been building in the notebook market for some time, so it’s not a complete surprise that shipments have surpassed those of desktops,” said iSuppli principal analyst for compute platforms Matthew Wilkins. “However, this marks a major event in the PC market because it marks the start of the age of the notebook.”
While Hewlett-Packard (HP) held onto its lead position in the third quarter of 2008, with shipments of 14.9 million units & a market share of 18.8 %, Taiwan-based Acer was the big winner of the third quarter, which grew its unit shipment market share by 45%, and by 79% on a year-over-year basis.
“Acer shipped almost 3 million more notebooks in the 3rd quarter than it did in the preceding quarter, with the majority of those 3 million being the company’s netbook products,” Wilkins noted. “Clearly, the company’s netbook strategy is paying dividends, with Acer now trailing Dell by less than 2% age points of market share for all PCs.”
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