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appleinsider.com - 3/2/2009
Gartner predicts sharpest decline PC sales ever
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Worldwide PC shipments will tumble by the largest percentage ever recorded in history this year, with desktops hit especially hard as mini-notebooks boost growth for mobile PCs, according to Gartner .

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Gartner: Worldwide PC shipments will tumble by largest percentage ever recorded
MacDailyNews — ... 2.7 percent, according to the report," Spear reports. Spear reports, "What this will mean for Apple is not yet known, but the Cupertino-based company did enjoy Mac sales growth last quarter despite a contracting overall market... Apple's strength in portables is seen as a positive for its Mac business, which Wall Street analysts have predicted will essentially tread water in 2009... Apple executives have repeatedly denied any interest in competing for netbook sales." Full article here .

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