The sales of PCs and notebooks dropped in Hungary in the last quarter of 2008, after many years of increase, the economic daily Vilaggazdasag said on Wednesday.
The sales of PCs decreased by some 35 percent in the last three months of the past year, and even the previously dynamically growing notebook market shrunk as compared to the same period of the previous year, the paper quoted market analyst Gabor Fauszt.
On an annual basis, however, still 8.2 percent more, some 195,000 PCs were sold than in 2007.
A new category of PCs, netbooks appeared on the market in 2008, and there is a growing demand for them in Hungary. In the last quarter of 2008, over 20,000 of them were sold, Vilaggazdasag said.