Since 2005, the sales of laptops have displaced those of desktop PCs in the United States.
Due a constant drop in price rapid technical improvements and the swift evolution and extension of the WAN technology, notebooks are destined to replace desktops in most areas both professionally and at home.
Laptops will account for more than half of the worldwide PC shipments by 2011, according to a new report by IDC.
According to the Gartner Group, worldwide some 257.1 million PCs will ship this year, and 60 percent of them will be desktops. PC growth for 2007 should be around 7% while laptops will grow by 18.6% and will continue to maintain a double digit growth at least until 2010. Desktop sales are still strong in the EMEA and Latin America with about 60% of all shipments.
In more mature markets notebooks have taken over and continue to grow at a much faster pace. This would hardly shocking news.
Notebooks take up much less space than desktops, they’re portable, and given their relatively low cost compared to a few years ago, you can just buy a new one when you decide you want to upgrade.
Specific reasons of the evolution from...