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Laptops to outsell desktop PCs
22/03/2007 – A report has revealed that Laptops will be the dominant form of computer by 2011. The findings published by analysts IDC show that the demand for desktop PCs will grow but at a declining rate eventually being usurped by portable machines.The laptop market will grow year-on-year by 16.1% until 2011 whereas the desktop market will only grow by 3.8% in the same period.
The report does however predict that the desktop market will experience a short burst over the next year following the roll out of Microsoft Vista.
Doug Bell, analyst in IDC's personal computing program said: "The release of Vista and a desktop refresh will create some growth opportunity in late 2007 and early 2008, before resuming a declining growth trend in the out-years,"
In the last year the numbers of laptops shipped rose by 26.3% with more than 82 million portable computers shipped around the world.
In comparison desktop PC shipments rose by less than 2% with 140 million desktop PCs shipped worldwide in 2006, according to the report.
The reason for this gradual shift away from fixed machines could reflect the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce and the wider proliferation of wireless networks.
The number of internet users with wireless at home in the US has nearly doubled to one out in ten people according to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Research by Current Analysis found that 2005 was the first year in which desktop sales were less than laptop sales in the US.
Loren Loverde of IDC believes that laptops are taking up the gaps in the desktop market. "Portables are picking up some of the slack from Desktops," she said.
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Published Date: 2007-03-22 11:25:59Subscribe to our RSS News feed:
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