Monday, June 22, 2009

When will PC sales rebound? - InternetNews.com

Suppli is the latest market research firm to weigh in with first-quarter 2009 PC sales, and like the numbers from Gartner and IDC, the findings aren't pretty. It reports that worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter fell by the largest rate in the seven years that iSuppli has been tracking the market.

PC shipments in the first quarter of 2009 fell 8.1 percent over the same period in 2008, from 72.3 million to 66.5 million units in 2009. When compared to the end of last year, the drop is even larger, down 14.4 percent from the 77.6 million units shipped during fourth quarter -- a period when shipments had already begun to slow as the economy started heading south...