Total PC unit sales will also increase by 52% across all form factors-- desktops, notebooks and laptops, tablets and netbooks by then. Notebooks will still lead the pack, with an expected 42% share of the market, while netbooks will make up just 17% of total sales.
“Tablet growth will come at the expense of netbooks, which have a similar grab-and-go media consumption and web browsing use case as tablets but don’t synchronise data across services like the iPad does,” said Forrester research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps.
She continued: “Consumers didn’t ask for tablets. In fact, Forrester’s data shows that the top features consumers say they want in a PC are a complete mismatch with the features of the iPad. But Apple is successfully teaching consumers to want this new device.”
While desktop sales will slide over the next five years, going from 18.7 million units sold in 2010 to 15.7 million units in 2015, desktops will continue to play a relevant role in the market, buoyed by consumers’ desire for processing-heavy activities such as gaming and watching and editing HD and 3D video and graphics.
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