Is HP notebook or personal computer category gradually being replaced by modern machine such as tablet or specifically iPad? Whatever the growth figure of Apple’s flagship product is, diehard officials of Palo Alto-based Hewlett Packard (HP) are not ready to concede heydays of PCs have come to an end as a befitting substitute in the form of tablet computer is now available in the market.
“PCs remain key tools for everything from video editing, music mixing, and spreadsheet crunching to thoughtful missives,” said James Mouton, general manager of HP’s personal computer global business unit. “And if you’re sending Junior off to college, the first computing product needed for homework is a PC,” Mouton responded to an email query by Forbes.
At the same time, he was not niggardly in accepting what he called the terrifically complementary role of tablets.
Driven by Apple’s iPad, sales of tablets climbed staggeringly 247 per cent to 63.2 million units last year, according to a research firm Canalys. Desktops and notebooks stood not even near that rate of growth. However, in terms of number of units sold desktop and notebook including HP notebook outshone post-PC generation.
Total 112.4 million desktop units were sold last year, indicating 2.3 per cent growth while more than 209 million notebooks were sold, up 7.5 per cent. Netbook sales, however, plunged 25.3 per cent to 29.4 million units in 2011.
Apple generates much (approx. 75 per cent) of its revenue from post-PC devices including iPad, iPhone, and iPod. It sold collectively 172 million units of these devices in 2011. For the time being, it looks difficult if notebook users would be ready to give in the big-screen comfort. Future of netbook is however perceptibly gloomy.
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