Abstract
This IDC study is the result of IDC' s 2009 Commercial
PC Buyer Survey. Conducted online during June 2009, the survey
polled carefully screened participants about their companies' current commercial PC
use and future plans. Using a Web hosting firm, we
conducted the survey in seven countries — the United States,
the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Germany, India, and Japan —
gathering a total of 1,682 respondents.
This document covers the U.S.-only
portion of the survey, which yielded 405 IT decision makers.
It looks at both current and future PC purchasing trends,
including desktop versus notebook trends, form factors, pricing, and brands.
The second document will look at these same areas of
interests at the global level.
"In a down economy, it comes
as no surprise that businesses are increasingly cautious about their
plans for future PC purchases. Buyers are carefully evaluating new
desktop and notebook form factors, they' re trying new brands, and
they' re holding on to their old PCs for much longer
than in previous years," said Tom Mainelli, senior research analyst
with IDC' s Clients and Displays Group. "At a time when
companies routinely expect to keep their old PC for at
least four years, vendors must become increasingly receptive to the
business opportunities that do appear."
Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Methodology
- Respondent Demographic Profile
- Situation Overview
- Current and Future PC Types and Channels
- Notebook Versus Desktop Adoption
- Purchase Channels: Desktops
- Purchase Channels: Notebooks
- Other Future Purchase Considerations
- PC Life Spans
- Brands, Form Factors, and Prices
- Desktop Form Factors
- Notebook Form Factors
- Pricing
- Mininotebooks
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Appendix: U.S. Commercial PC Survey — 2009
- Synopsis
- Table: Current PC/Monitor Combinations by Company Size (Mean %)
- Table: Previous and Future Purchases of Desktop and Notebook PCs by Company Size (Mean %)
- Table: Green PC Purchase Considerations
- Table: Desktop and Notebook Life Span by Company Size (Years)
- Table: Top Future Purchase Desktop Brands by Company Size (Mean %)
- Table: Top Future Purchase Notebook Brands by Company Size (Mean %)
- Table: Previous and Future Desktop and Notebook Average Purchase Prices ($)
- Table: Planned Usage of Mininotebooks Purchased in the Next 12 Months by Company Size (% of Respondents)
- Table: Reasons for Not Purchasing Mininotebooks in the Next 12 Months by Company Size (% of Respondents)
- Figure: Respondents by Company Size
- Figure: Respondents by Role in Organization
- Figure: Respondents by Vertical Industry
- Figure: Current PC/Monitor Combinations
- Figure: Previous and Future Purchases of Desktop and Notebook PCs
- Figure: Previous and Future Desktop Purchase Channel
- Figure: Future Desktop Purchase Channel by Company Size
- Figure: Previous and Future Notebook Purchase Channel
- Figure: Future Notebook Purchase Channel by Company Size
- Figure: Primary Consideration in Future PC Purchases by Company Size
- Figure: Operating System on PCs Purchased in the Past 12 Months
- Figure: Future PC Purchase Operating System Preference
- Figure: Desktop Life Span
- Figure: Notebook Life Span
- Figure: Brand Preference for Previous and Future Desktop Purchases
- Figure: Brand Preference for Previous and Future Notebook Purchases
- Figure: Form Factor Preference for Previous and Future Desktop Purchases
- Figure: Form Factor Preference for Future Desktop Purchase by Company Size
- Figure: Form Factor Preference for Previous and Future Notebook Purchases
- Figure: Form Factor Preference for Future Notebook Purchase by Company Size
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