14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like the so-called “slow season” is upon the laptop market.
Digitimes says that most companies charged with making laptops expect April to be a particularly slow month.
As Intel's Ivy Bridge launch draws near, companies are scrambling to exhaust their Sandy Bridge laptop inventories.
That means that they aren't ordering as many new ones as they otherwise would.
For the ones who make the computers, this isn't the best of news.
In fact, for this month (April 2012), they will ship between 10% and 20% fewer notebooks.
The makers hope that the rest of the second quarter will make up for this, at least in part. After all, the main cause behind the current drop in orders is the platform transition we've already mentioned, not some catastrophic decline in customer interest or need.