The desktop and notebook market grew 20 per cent year-on-year, with 6.5 million units shipped into the country in 2007, as compared with 5.4 million units in 2006, according IDC’s latest India quarterly PC tracker.
Notebook shipments accounted for more than 27 per cent of the total PC shipments for the first time in a calendar year.
Notebook PC shipments touched 1.8 million units, as against 0.98 million units in 2006, which show acceptance of laptops as the preferred choice for first-time PC buyers, according to Kapil Dev Singh, country manager, IDC India.
Piyush Pushkal, manager, PC research, IDC India, said: “With consumer desktop shipments reporting flat growth, the higher overall growth of the consumer client PC segment signals maturing of the market. The consumer PC category is shifting from desktop-centric to being notebook-centric.”
While the notebook PC market grew 81 per cent in 2007 year-on-year, the desktop PC market grew by 7 per cent as it shipped 4.7 million units in 2007 as against 4.4 million units in 2006.
The study said there was a need to encourage development and widespread adoption of communication and convergence to spur future growth.
“These low-end notebook PC-type gadgets are not likely to increase PC penetration in India significantly. To increase PC penetration, the ecosystem needs to offer an affordable internet infrastructure, local applications, Indian language content, e-commerce and education. The PC-type gadgets are likely to function only as secondary computing devices in existing PC-owning households,”
Notebook shipments accounted for more than 27 per cent of the total PC shipments for the first time in a calendar year.
Notebook PC shipments touched 1.8 million units, as against 0.98 million units in 2006, which show acceptance of laptops as the preferred choice for first-time PC buyers, according to Kapil Dev Singh, country manager, IDC India.
Piyush Pushkal, manager, PC research, IDC India, said: “With consumer desktop shipments reporting flat growth, the higher overall growth of the consumer client PC segment signals maturing of the market. The consumer PC category is shifting from desktop-centric to being notebook-centric.”
While the notebook PC market grew 81 per cent in 2007 year-on-year, the desktop PC market grew by 7 per cent as it shipped 4.7 million units in 2007 as against 4.4 million units in 2006.
The study said there was a need to encourage development and widespread adoption of communication and convergence to spur future growth.
“These low-end notebook PC-type gadgets are not likely to increase PC penetration in India significantly. To increase PC penetration, the ecosystem needs to offer an affordable internet infrastructure, local applications, Indian language content, e-commerce and education. The PC-type gadgets are likely to function only as secondary computing devices in existing PC-owning households,”
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