If the cost of Laptops keeps on falling as present then they will soon overtake desktops by the year 2011 according to an IDC report that was released Tuesday. PC shipments rose only 7.3% in Q4 of 2006, on the other hand the rise in the shipments of notebooks was 15%. If we compare the shipments for the whole year then we find that the shipments for desktop PCs grew just 2% to 138.3 million in 2006 while the shipments for portables jumped 26.3% to 82.4 million. In the U.S. the sales of notebooks surpassed desktops in 2005. IDC also stated that the release of Windows Vista can temporarily boost the shipments of desktops by the end of this year to the early part of next year, but this will soon be taken over by laptops.
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