| Domestic PC shipments grew 20% in Q3: Gartner |
| BS Reporter / Mumbai December 13, 2007 |
| With home markets expanding to 26.4% of total personal computer (PC) sales, PC shipments in the country reached over 2.2 million units in the third quarter of 2007, an increase of 19.7% over the corresponding period in 2006, according to Gartner Inc, a leading information technology research and advisory company. Domestic mobile PC (laptop) sales grew 99.4% to nearly half a million in the third quarter of 2007. The desk based PC shipments grew at 7.8% to 1.72 million. This has been the highest growth in the last three quarters, driven predominantly by large brands like HP, HCL, Lenovo and Acer supported by the SMB segment, which is being seen as the new driver of desk-based PC growth in India. The slow-down of the desk-based PC market can be attributed to negative growth of the white box segment, which has been shrinking due to the marketing onslaught of the large local and multinational PC vendors and the home market |
