It appears that the laptop arena is helping to keep vendor’s heads from sinking under the water, and along with small cheap computers have helped shipments of personal computers grow a nice 27% during Q3.

The figures show that notebook shipments are up 52% when comparing figures for Q3 08 with the previous same period in 07. What is evident however is that European netbook shipments when from nothing in Q3 07 up to a staggering two million in Q3 of 08.

Two million netbooks represent 10% of the 27.9 million computers shipped into Europe during Q3 of this year, and forecasts predict that small cheap computers will shoot skywards 100% to four million during this current quarter.

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