| The desktop and notebook market grew 20 per cent year-on-year, with 6.5 million units shipped into the country in 2007, as compared with 5.4 million units in 2006, according IDC’s latest India quarterly PC tracker.
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| Notebook shipments accounted for more than 27 per cent of the total PC shipments for the first time in a calendar year.
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| Notebook PC shipments touched 1.8 million units, as against 0.98 million units in 2006, which show acceptance of laptops as the preferred choice for first-time PC buyers, according to Kapil Dev Singh, country manager, IDC India.
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| Piyush Pushkal, manager, PC research, IDC India, said: “With consumer desktop shipments reporting flat growth, the higher overall growth of the consumer client PC segment signals maturing of the market. The consumer PC category is shifting from desktop-centric to being notebook-centric.”
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| While the notebook PC market grew 81 per cent in 2007 year-on-year, the desktop PC market grew by 7 per cent as it shipped 4.7 million units in 2007 as against 4.4 million units in 2006.
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| The study said there was a need to encourage development and widespread adoption of communication and convergence to spur future growth.
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| “These low-end notebook PC-type gadgets are not likely to increase PC penetration in India significantly. To increase PC penetration, the ecosystem needs to offer an affordable internet infrastructure, local applications, Indian language content, e-commerce and education. The PC-type gadgets are likely to function only as secondary computing devices in existing PC-owning households,” said Pushkal. |
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