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“Overall fourth quarter 2004 PC sales were in line with projections, despite some weakness in the U.S. and EMEA consumer markets,” said Charles Smulders, vice president of Gartner's Computing Platforms Worldwide Group. “Lower prices, better performance and wireless accessibility accelerated mobile sales.” Dell strengthened its lead in the worldwide vendor market (see Table 1) with solid performance in all… Read More

Gartner analysts said global shipments were impacted by slower sales in the U.S. market. PC shipments in the U.S. grew 5 percent in the third quarter, however analysts had expected shipments to increase more than 8 percent in the quarter. Other regions performed in line with expectations. “U.S. home notebook shipments were strong during the quarter, but desktop demand was much weaker, which brought down back to school shipments… Read More