“PC shipments… continued to slump, declining 19.8% year over year and 11% quarter over quarter, reaching 565,000 units in the third quarter,” IDC said in a recent analysis, citing its Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.
“On the flip side, notebook shipments recorded a year-on-year decline of 29.5% caused by the weakened demand from market saturation and inflation effects on the average buyer,” IDC noted. It declined by only 0.5% year on year “given its optimal price-to-performance ratio in which the top PC makers are maintaining affordability while offering sleeker designs with greater processing capabilities and a wider selection of available models,” IDC said.
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