The era of universal mobility, which so many analysts say, now you can tell, there was official. According to a recent survey of analysts the company iSuppli, global sales of notebook PCs in the third quarter of 2008 for the first time in history, surpassed the volume of shipments of desktop systems.
The growth of sales of portable PCs, as compared with the third quarter of last year amounted to 40% and reached 38, 6 million notebook PCs. Sales of desktop PCs, as compared to the same period, even dropped by 1, 3% and accounted for 38, 5 million systems.
The point of intersection of the world`s sales of notebook and desktop PCs has long been predicted, but in addition to direct growth in the popularity of portable models finally being played by some of the indirect causes, such as the spectacular decline in the prices of LCD displays, as well as the significant growth of networks Wi-Fi.
is also interesting to note that the sum of sales of computers in the third quarter of 2008, amounting to a total of 79 million, look very good on the background of a general crisis, with growth in sales volumes compared to the same period of 2007 amounted to 15, 4 %.
iSuppli analysts note that the results of the third quarter have exceeded their projections, based on the benchmark 12% increase. Furthermore, iSuppli now raises its own forecast of growth of PC sales for the full year 2008 from 12, 5% to 13%. Nevertheless, the sad forecast sales growth in 2009 at only 4, 3% remained unchanged, although earlier - to deepen the crisis, analysts iSuppli things 11, 9% growth.
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