Worldwide mobile PC shipments are forecast to total 103.2 million units in 2007, a 27.1 percent increase from 2006. Meanwhile, desk-based PC shipments are on pace to total 153.9 million units in 2007, up 2.4 percent from last year.

“Consumer mobile PCs remain the PC market’s principal growth driver, thanks to falling average selling prices (ASPs), increasing performance, and the continuing spread of wireless access,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner Dataquest’s Client Computing Markets Group. “Globally mobile PC ASPs have fallen below $1,100, but buyers in many parts of the world have an impressive range of choices below $1,000.”

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