Market soothsayers IDC have cast runes and thrown bones, perused some sales data and come up with the glaringly-obvious news that desktop sales are lagging, yet notebook sales are soaring. Apparently, this is due to workforces becoming increasingly mobile and punters wanting to take their work with them to the local café fitted with a hot spot.

In the first quarter of 2008, PC makers had the pleasure of shipping 14.3% more desktops out to punters of all sorts than in the same period previous years, whilst notebook shipments grew by 41.8%. Desktop sales are apparently soft in the consumer and SME midsections, as both opt to trade in their old desktop for an all-singing, all-dancing notebook.

The company also prophesied that UMPCs, or netbooks, as they are now more catchingly called, will add to further growth and fuel the market. Corporations also apparently seem to have renewed their kit and shelled out money for new computing gadgetry, which furthered the market.

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