- Cheap notebooks selling well
The economic pullback cut into PC sales in the third quarter. But the recent spread of low cost notebooks helped keep a bad situation from getting worse.
IDC said worldwide sales rose 15.8 percent in the period, just shy of the research firm’s 15.9 percent forecast. The outlook matched the one Gartner released yesterday.
“The proliferation of low-cost portable PCs coincided perfectly with market conditions,” said research analyst Jay Chou.
The firm expects the financial woes to affect buying during the holiday period.
Posted by Mark Boslet 
