E-learning, work from home power up notebook and laptop sales: IDC

For Q4CY20, PC shipments grew by 27 per cent year-on-year, said data from the IDC.

Demand thanks to the rising trend of e-learning and remote working gave a fillip to sales of notebooks and laptops in 2020. CY20 ended the biggest year for notebooks with 7.9-million-unit shipments during the year.
 
Notebook shipments grew 6 per cent in 2020, said the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. 
 
If one excludes the mega ELCOT deal, notebooks witnessed an impressive 34.3 per cent YoY growth this year, said IDC.  Had the industry not been challenged by the component shortages, notebook shipments could have been much higher during the year. Contrary to this, desktop shipments saw