SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 More laptop computers were sold in the United States in 2007 than bulky traditional desktop computers.
In fact, 16 of the 20 bestselling PCs on Amazon.com this holiday season were laptops, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
U.S. corporations in 2008 are expected to make laptops the majority of their computer purchases. BNSF Railway Co. already has switched to buying more laptops than desktops.
Of the 4,000 Dell Inc. computers the Fort Worth, Texas-based company bought last year, 60 percent were laptops so its employees could file reports remotely, the newspaper reported.
"They were in a totally tethered world, and now they have no tethering at all," said Jeff Campbell, the Fort Worth company's chief information officer.
By 2011, research firm IDC expects portable computers to constitute 66 percent of all corporate PCs sold, up from 40 percent in 2006, and 71 percent of all consumer PCs sold, up from 44 percent.
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