This year, there are expected to be more than 200 million shipments of the devices, which will for the first time exceed shipments of notebooks, the largest category of PCs, estimates Gartner, the research firm.
One category of PCs where that is especially true is netbooks, the inexpensive notebook computers that have had a steep decline in shipments in the last couple of years.
While the 209.6 million notebook shipments still make that the largest category of "PCs," the growth trends here, if sustained, dictate that's its only a matter of time before the shift to tablets becomes even more pronounced.
The old tradition of flogging 220 different combinations of A.M.D. chips has been traded in and replaced with three categories of PCs: See, Share and Create systems (the designations roughly line up with "good," better" and "best").
Intel deftly coined the term "netbook," as a new category of "companion PCs" segregated from its more profitable notebook PC business.
Analysis of the PC-PART's item response categories supported use of the dichotomous response categories of the PC-PART items.
Apple routinely tops the PC category of the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
I doubt that PC volume will return to its prior heights, given the growing popularity of mobile computing — it's up to you to want to count in the PC category, of course.
These and other features make Kaby Lake a natural fit for ultraportables, and for 2-in-1s, the convertible category of tablet/notebook hybrids that PC makers and a decent chunk of consumers have been embracing of late.
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