There’s darkness at the end of the tunnel for vendors of notebooks, it appears.
Digitimes Research said that while notebook sales in 2014 fell by 2.1 percent in 2014, next year isn’t going to be too brilliant either.
It expects a further decline of 1.7 percent worlldwide in 2015, with shipments amounting to 168 million units.
The research outfit said that Microsoft Windows 10 is unlikely to bump up demand and efforts made by Microsoft to stimulate demand by reducing licensing fees aren’t going to turn things round.
It predicts declines in shipments of notebooks all the way through to 2018.
But every cloud has a silver lining because at least it will mean the price of notebooks will fall in 2015, partly due to Microsoft’s cunning plan to make machines with 11.6-inch notebooks sell for under 2015.
Chromebooks are expected to make additional depradations on the traditional Wintel notebook.
