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Laptop sales up 43 p.c, desktop down 11 p.c: MAIT

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: MAIT (Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology), the organization representing  hardware, training, R&D and hardware design and other associated service segments of the Indian IT Industry, today released the industry performance review for the first half of the financial year 2009-10.

During the period between April-September 2009, the total PC sales, including desktop and notebooks and netbooks, was 3.71 million, registering a growth of just one per cent compared to the same period in the previous financial year.

The MAIT report said the sale of desktop computers declined by 11 per cent YoY, and during the period the sales stood at 2.6 million. Notebooks and netbooks taken together recorded a consumption of 1.1 million, which is up by 43 per cent compared to the sales figures of the year-ago period, the report added.

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