The Apple iPad, a rejuvenated tablet market and low-cost netbooks will all help drive worldwide PC shipments to a 20 percent gain in 2010, Gartner is predicting. That push for mobile devices will continue to grow, according to Gartner. Within three years, mobile PCs are expected to drive 90 percent of PC growth.
– Gartner expects worldwide shipments of PCs in
2010 to grow 20 percent over last year, driven by rising
interest in mobile PCs, including Apple’s iPad tablet, the IT
research firm wrote in a March 4 report.

In 2009, netbooks or mini-notebooks, as Gartner refers to them helped to boo…