Notebooks in front of desktop models in the US

For the first time in the history of the PC, the laptops passed in front of the office machines. In the third quarter, 2008, they accounted for 55,2% of the sales with 9,5 million machines, that is to say a growth of 20% year on year.
It should be said that the portables are not any more supplemental products; they now have power, an equivalent memory and amply sufficient capacities of hard drives to make them complete and principal machines.
This new tendency is without any doubt excellent news for Apple which always has had an excellent market share in this sector since some years (they had 20% of this market in September).
In this context one also understands why NVidia made so much effort with its Geforce 9400 to come out on top in this segment; this is important in an industry that, as with the rest of the economy, will live through a difficult period.