According to a research made by Gartner research institutes, in the first quarter of this year, the sales of mobile PC increased by 43 percent globally. Achieving this highest level recorded at the same time within the last eight years. The product is entered into the category of Gartner’s portable computer are laptop, netbook, and tablet PCs, as quoted from page Information Week, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
Recorded that the sales of laptop computers rose 43 percent globally compared to last year to 49.4 million units. If exposed per year from first quarter 2009 to first quarter 2010 sales estimated to reach U.S. $ 36 billion or equivalent to Rp336, 4 trillion.
“Consumers continue to be a major driver of the market. Sales continue to rise. We are projecting that the growth is much higher towards the end of the year until 2011,” said Gartner. “This initiative encouraged the companies that began to change production processes to the computer to replace the old PC laptop,” he added.
Also reported, the average selling price of portable computers, including laptops, netbooks, and tablet PCs, fell to U.S. $ 732 or Rp6, 8 million in the same quarter. This figure is down 15.7 percent than the same period last year. Over a year ago, netbooks to be a product “hottest”, because of high purchasing power markets is strongly influenced by the global financial crisis. It’s great because sales of laptop computers rose 43 percent globally.
“The reduced price of regular laptops affect the average price of a portable computer. As a result, the level of sales soared during the past year,” Gartner wrote in its report.
Hewlett-Packard is still the world’s largest PC manufacturer, with 19.2 percent market share. However, HP with Dell in third place, and Toshiba in fourth place, recorded a sales growth rate below the industry average, ie, respectively 23.2 percent, 33.1 percent and 34.7 percent.
Jump in global sales of laptop computers up to 43 percent in fact helped by two other large producers. Asus in the fifth strongest recorded sales with 113 percent growth, about 48.4 percent and Acer. What do you think about the sales of laptop computers rose 43 percent globally?
