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Featured Story: Mobile PC Sales Drive Strong U.S. PC Growth: Gartner

Monday, 27 October 2008 08:09

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The U.S. PC market is continuing to grow thanks to strong mobile PC sales which more than offset a drop in desktop PC sales.

U.S.-based businesses and consumers purchased a total of 17.4 million PCs during the third quarter of 2008, up 4.6 percent over the 16.6 million sold during the same period last year, according to a preliminary report released by Gartner on Tuesday.

The Gartner PC numbers includes desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and x86-based servers.

Key to that growth is a continuing increase in mobile PC sales which more than offsets ongoing declines in desktop PC sales, said Mika Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner's Client Computing Markets group.

Read more in the October 14, 2008 ChannelWeb

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