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One tenth of new laptops are with touchpads

15.05.2013

Referring to data contained in a report prepared by Displaybank, an analytics firm, the source claims that 2013 million touchscreen laptops were shipped between January and March 4,57. This corresponds to about 10% of last quarter's total notebook shipments of 46 million units.

If we compare the number of touch screen notebooks released in the first quarter of 2013 with the number of touch screen notebooks released in the fourth quarter of 2012, it turns out that the shipment growth of these products is 51,8%.

Considering that the market for touch notebooks is at the initial stage of development, Displaybank analysts regard these figures as very high.

Taiwanese manufacturers are particularly enthusiastic about mobile computers with touch input. Recall that Acer plans to equip every second laptop with a touch screen in 2014, and in the total supply of Asustek Computer laptops, touch models in the first quarter accounted for 20%.

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