Singapore PC market to grow slightly

Preliminary figures from research house IDC Corp show that PC sales picked up in Q3 and surged in the last quarter of last year. Singapore saw 133,460 PCs - including desktops, notebooks and x86 servers - shipped in Q4 last year, up a resounding 11.7% over Q4 2002 and up almost 14% over Q3 2003, according to IDC. As for this year, IDC estimates desktop PC shipments to rise 2.4% - and notebook PCs to go up 4.1% - in Singapore over 2003. PC shipments in Q4 last year were slightly better than in the previous quarter in Singapore. In Q3 2003, PC shipments rose 11% quarter-on-quarter and 16% year-on-year.