Notebooks enjoy booming sales on buoyant IT market

This means that computer sales in 2006 will increase by 25%, which is slower than last year. However, a lot depends on whether the Education Ministry will announce new tenders. Despite the fact that sales may slow down this year, there is still a boom on the market and the Polish market is growing three times faster than the world market. According to analysts the reason are the falling prices coupled with dynamic economic growth thanks to which companies and individual client are able to afford to buy computers. The sale of notebooks in 2006 jumped to 880,000 units, up from 360,000 in 2005.Analysts say that Hewlett-Packard is enjoying the best results selling 217,000 computers and distancing itself from the competition. However, soon the company will have to deal with much tougher competition as Dell and TNT are stepping-up their production capacity. All companies in Poland producing and assembling computers, except for Optimus, noted increased sales. (Rzeczpospolita, March 24-25, p. B3) M.M.