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businesswire.com - 1/14/2009
Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC Industry Suffered Its Worst Shipment Growth Rate Since 2002
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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the fourth quarter of 2008, the worldwide PC industry suffered its worst growth rate since 2002 as worldwide shipments totaled 78.1 million units, a 1.1 percent increase from the

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Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC Industry Suffered Its Worst Shipment Growth ...
— gartner.com — STAMFORD, Conn., January 15, 2009 — In the fourth quarter of 2008, the worldwide PC industry suffered its worst growth rate since 2002 as worldwide shipments totalled 78.1 million units, a 1.1 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2007, ... (more) Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC ...

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PC Vendors Had A Miserable Q4, Industry Analysts Say
WSJ.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... Gartner this afternoon reports that Q4 worldwide PC shipments were up just 1.1% from a year earlier, the slowest growth since 2002. In the U.S., PC shipments fell 10%, for the worst quarter since 2001. Here’s Gartner’s list of the five leading PC vendors for Q4: ...

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