Gartner reports that sales of PCs in Western Europe fell 20.5 percent in the first quarter compared to a year previous. Every country and every segment of the market saw serious declines. Shipments of mobile PCs fell by 24.6 percent and desktop PCs by 13.8 percent. Shipments for the "professional" PC market dropped 17.2 percent, and those to the consumer PC market declined 23.7 percent.
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