06 years Q1 PC quarter of strong sales growth leading notebook computer

According to industry analysts said that strong first half of global retail PC maintain this year, notebook computer sales hot, while the desktop sales decline.

NPD technology world's Steve Beck predicts that over the past few years, sales of laptop computers have grown in the PC market. Compared with the same period last year, notebook retail sales grew by 50% in the first quarter of this year, while Toshiba and other manufacturers to take bold measures to reduce.

Current Analysis organization analyst Sam Bhavnani said desktop sales are not completely out of favor. In the past few quarters, laptop sales are better than desktops, but in the first quarter of this year, desktop sales in some markets and re. 1G memory desktop has become increasingly popular, 120G hard disk PC can be seen everywhere.

In general, the first quarter sales worse than the fourth quarter, because the fourth quarter is the peak summer shopping, which will promote the sale of PC. The first quarter of this year, the situation is more than the gap between the fourth quarter, mainly in March this year, Intel announced its earnings than expected. However, compared with the same period last year, the growth rate, PC shipments grew 28%.

The third quarter, the situation is better PC vendors, which is mainly due to Microsoft Corp announced the postponement of the launch of the VISTA system. Analysts said that the introduction of Microsoft's new operating system will not affect the entire PC market, but analysts are still worried about this.

Current Analysis and NPD institutions to track sales in the U.S. PC market, statistics do not include the situation of DELL and other direct sellers. But this prediction usually reflects the overall trend of the development of the consumer PC market.

The next few weeks, with Intel, gateway and Apple Corp announced the first quarter report, the PC industry will be more clear. Earlier this week, AMD's first quarter report, which continues to lead the way, mainly because of the acquisition of a lot of market share from Intel. DELL and HP will be arranged to announce earnings.