14 DAY TRIAL // Notebooks sales have been struggling to keep a pace with the tremendous tablet growth, but it appears luck is not on their side either.
According to a DigiTimes report, global notebook shipments in Q1 2014 may experience a 10%-20% drop due to weather hazards in the US and labor shortages in China.
Apparently, due to extreme weather conditions affecting states such as Montana, Illinois, and Indiana, notebook vendors have had a hard time depleting their inventories.
For example, Quanta Computer shipped 12.1 million notebooks in Q4 of 2013, with most orders coming from HP and Apple, but the company expects notebook shipments in the first part of the year to drop 10%-20%.
Furthermore, the global notebook market is expected to continue to decline throughout 2014 as well.