PC Shipments Rise for the First Holiday Quarter in Six Years
- Commercial upgrades of traditional PCs help boost demand
- Establishes a "steadying, albeit still weak" landscape
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Demand for personal-computers rose over the holiday season for the first time in six years, buoyed by commercial upgrades and pockets of improving consumer demand.
Although shipments declined slightly overall in 2017, it still marked the most stable year the market has seen since 2011, IDC said in a report Thursday.