In 2008, to be sold 311 million personal computers

Analyst Firm IDC conducted a study on the world market for personal computers. This notion, in this case, combines desktop computers and laptops, as well as ultraportativnye computers and servers x86, but the CPC IDC study did not evaluate. According to the forecasts of experts for the entire year 2008 the world will be sold 311 million PCs are at 15.7% more than in 2007. In 2012, the volume of shipments of 482 million, but market growth will slow: performance in 2012 will be only 9% higher than 2011.

As expected, one of the most successful and fastest growing market segments of personal computers have become mini-notebooks. These low-cost portable solutions are becoming more common. For example, in Western Europe in the second quarter of this year's market growth netbukov was 60% compared with the same period last year.