PC Sales Expected to Rebound, Prices Won't

PC Sales Expected to Rebound, Prices Won’t

Written By
Jessica Davis
Jessica Davis
Jun 26, 2009
1 minute read
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The PC market is now expected to post positive unit growth in Q4 2009 in a long-awaited turnaround from what have been several quarters of decline. And that will lead to a “healthy market recovery in 2010.”
Market research firm Gartner is now forecasting PC unit sales for 2009 to decline by 6 percent to 274 million, a brighter forecast than Gartner released earlier this year. And the picture for 2010 will be even better with PC unit sales forecast to grow by 10.3 percent.
“PC unit growth was stronger than we expected in all markets but Eastern Europe in the first quarter of 2009. In particular, consumer shipments were much stronger than we anticipated,” says George Shiffler, research director at Gartner, in a prepared statement.

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Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis has been a professional writer since 2005. She has worked in various media outlets, writing for a bricklaying trade publication, several research companies and her favorite: a major entertainment company in Washington where…

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