For the first time, the sale of notebooks or laptops has overtaken the desktop PC in 2008. Indian computer market has been increasing at a very fast pace. The country's personal computer market saw nearly 6.5 million units sold in 2007, a 20 per cent year-on-year growth, spurred by automation drive of firms and increased consumer spending on notebooks, market research firm IDC said.
Indian computer market is transitioning from desktop- centric to a notebook-centric growth, with the notebook PC shipments accounting for 27 per cent of the total client PC share.
Now the newly released IDC report has confirmed that India sold more laptops that the desktops.
But there is another reality. The word recession seems to have badly hit the Indian market as the 20 percent year on year growth is nowhere to be seen. The personal computer market in India according to the IDC report grew at meager 1.7 percent.
An IDC report about how the Indian computer market performed says that client PC shipments grew 1.7% during July-September (3Q 2008) compared to the same period last year, to touch 2.268 million PCs.
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