businesswire.com - 1/14/2009
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Despite market optimism early in the fourth quarter, the pace at which the economic environment unraveled and the extent to which PC purchases were affected was faster than
gartner.com - 1/15/2009
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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, ...
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Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC ...
businesswire.com - 1/15/2009
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businesswire.com —
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 fourth quarter of 2007, according ...
(more)
Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC ...
appleinsider.com - 1/15/2009
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appleinsider.com —
Apple's share of the US computer market fell
to 8 percent during the fourth calendar quarter of...
2008 from 9.5 percent in the third as the Mac maker surrendered its third place ranking to surging netbook maker Acer, according to market research firm ...
(more)
Apple's share of US PC market slips to 8% at hands of Acer
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PC Vendors Had A Miserable Q4, Industry Analysts Say
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... Meanwhile, IDC reported that Q4 shipments were down 0.4% versus last year, and off 2.5% from Q3. IDC said that low-cost portables, vendor competition and holiday promotions “were simply not enough to overcome the economic tide,” even with the netbook market growing rapidly. U.S. PC shipments were down 3.5% in units versus a year earlier, IDC reports. While IDC’s numbers for the individual companies varied a bit from Gartner’s numbers, the two firms list the same companies in the same order on their lists of the leading PC vendors in the ...
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