Notebooks and tablet PCs have become more popular than desktop PCs over the past two or three years, Samsung representative Sergei Ilyushin told Kommersant, a Russian business daily. According to him, tablet computers, which entered the mass market only last year, could displace netbooks as early as 2011.
GfK, an international market research company, reports that 4.14 million notebooks and tablet PCs were sold in Russia in 2010, representing some $3 billion in retail sales. That is an increase of 2.73 million devices from the number sold in 2009, up 51.6%, and a 91% increase from sales in 2009, which stood at $1.57 billion.
Asus took first place in 2010 sales with 21% of the market share, followed by Acer with 19%, Samsung with 16%, HP with 9%, and Lenovo with 8%.
Desktop PCs saw sales of $925.1 million in 2010, a 30% increase from the year before, but the volume of actual devices sold declined by 10.5%, to 1.71 million. HP and K-Systems were the best sellers, respectively.
Sources: Kommersant, Vedomosti, ComNews.ru
