While the notebook PC showed sequential growth in the third quarter the news is not good.
That’s according to market research company IHS, which said shipments “plunged” on a year to year basis.
IHS said that mobile PC shipments were 47.9 million worldwide, a rise of six percent from the quarter before. But despite this sequential growth, the market has now shrunk for five consecutive quarters on a year for year basis.
Craig Stice, senior principal analyst at HIS, said: “Amid the onslaught of tablets, the notebook PC market now is desperately seeking any reason for optimism. However, even with a respite from the sequential decline and a few other hopeful developments, the mobile PC business still on track to decline for the full year of 2013.”
He said the global PC market is forecast to fall again this year, repeating its decline in 2012. That was the first decline in 11 years.
