The IT market reached record highs. Finally, global shipments of PCs (Personal Computer) should grow in 2009 to 298.9 million units, up 2.8% over one year, announced Monday the research firm Gartner, which anticipated a decline. "It will be a new record, as in the past ten years!" Provides Ranjit Atwal, an analyst at Gartner. The market has strong demand for notebook PCs, which should reach "162 million units.
Demand is "especially the general public, which generates 40% of overall purchases," said Ranjit Atwal. As business travelers, individuals always want to stay connected to the Internet.
The rise of laptops due to the general enthusiasm for netbooks, these mini-PC light, about 1 kg, a price ranging between 200 and 500 euros, but are not equipped with DVD player .It should sell 29 million netbooks this year and 41 million in 2010. Growth for this family of PCs slowed. The reason? Netbooks "face increased competition from mobile PCs and low cost of new mobile devices," said George Schiffler, director at Gartner.
Smartphones, advanced mobile phones like the iPhone or the family of BlackBerry devices are designed for Internet access. These phones allow the global market for mobile phones to decline only by 3.7% this year to 1.17 billion units, according to Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner. In addition, the mobile phone market (176 billion dollars, down from 1.2% in 2009) goes one PC ($ 217 billion, down 10.8%).
In times of crisis, individuals and firms are more attentive to their purchases.Customers benefit from Moore's Law, a rule of thumb of a founder of Intel. Under this Act, every eighteen months, it is possible to increase by half the power of an electronic product for the same price or keep the same capacity but to halve its price. Consumers have opted for the second term of the alternative.
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