The laptop computer market in India grew by 84.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2007 against the corresponding quarter last year, contributing significantly to the overall PC market growth of 25.1 per cent.
More than five lakh notebook PCs were sold in the quarter, a study by market analyst IDC India said today.
Hewlett Packard (HP) retained the top slot with a market share of 37.8 per cent, while Lenova occupied the second position and Acer third.
Notebook PC sale in home and `Small Office and Home Office' (SOHO) segments grew by 166 per cent and made up 43 per cent of the total business. The next largest contributiors were enterprise and education segments.
"Portability, rather than mobility has emerged as the `number one' driver for the sustained growth in notebook PC shipments in India," Kapil Dev Singh, Country Manager, IDC India, said.
Given the choice of portability, flexibility and ease of use and narrowing of price-performance gap that once existed between portables and desktops, consumers are almost overwhelmingly inclined to buy notebook PCs, he said.
Further, laptop sales recorded an year-on-year growth of 104 per cent in the northern states of the country, followed by southern states at 80 per cent.
Meanwhile, the desktop PC shipments showed a growth of 10.9 per cent in the same quarter.
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