Gartner projects modest PC growth for 2009
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Continued resiliency in the consumer market and an improving global economy has Gartner feeling more optimistic in its preliminary fourth-quarter PC sales forecast.
The research firm now predicts worldwide PC shipments will total 298.9 million units in 2009, a 2.8 percent increase from 2008.
It's a marked improvement over the first half of the year, when Gartner was projecting a near-double-digit decline for the year.
"Basically, things didn't play out like we expected them to. When we were making our forecasts a year ago we were looking at the fourth quarter falling off the table. The economic situation looked pretty horrible," George Shiffler, research director at Gartner, told InternetNews.com.