Indian PC sales to jump 14%

The Financial Express reports.

Notebook PCs will drive the sales with double digit growth. The release of mass-market tablets will also aid the sales of PCs in India.

According to Live Mint, the study pointed out that with nearly 10 million unit sales in 2010, the combined installed base of desktop and notebook PCs in India is estimated to have crossed 52 million units as of 31 December, 2010.

The current installed base of PCs translates into one computer for every 25 Indians, doubling the per capita PC availability in just four years. At the end of 2006, there was approximately one computer for every 50 Indians.

The first tablet computer was unveiled in the country in November, 2010. Since then, the market has seen a slew of releases by both multinational corporation and Indian players.

“The future growth of the Indian PC market will be driven by adoption of new factors such as LED monitors in the commercial desktop space, netbooks, ultra lightweight notebooks and tablet computers in the portable space,” My Digital FC quotes associate VP research and advisory services, CyberMedia Research, Anirban Banerjee as saying.

He says four form factors, desktops, ultra lightweight notebooks, netbooks and tablet computers, will co-exist, leveraging on the reach and penetration of mobile broadband data services, content and applications or 'apps'.