IDC's Personal Computing service provides coverage of the worldwide personal computer marketplace. From the market impact of new form factors and technologies to price competition and changing consumer tastes, this research service delivers timely information on subjects critical to decision makers. Through an extensive research agenda, IDC's well-established analysts offer objective expertise on key hardware manufacturers, supply chains, geographic regions, products, technologies, and trends. This service provides PC vendors, component suppliers, distributors, and investors with the information necessary to make critical business decisions.

• U.S. and worldwide PC industry developments by region, form factor, and segment
• U.S. and worldwide PC form factors, including the tower, minitower, small form factor, ultrasmall form factor, all in one, blade, living room, tiny, thin and light/mainstream, ultraportable, transportable/desktop replacement, tablet slate, tablet convertible, and mininotebook, by corporate and consumer segments
• Analysis of notebook and LCD panel markets
• Analysis of interface technologies embedded into PCs
• Analysis of factors contributing to PC demand
• Buying patterns among enterprise IT managers
• Consumer demand factors

• Future PC market growth, forecast quarterly by form factor, segment, channel, and processor
• Key product introductions
• Technical and financial strategies of major vendors
• Changes in market share position among major vendors and vendor tiers
• Vendor profiles
• Varying PC adoption patterns among commercial and consumer market segments
• Shifts in distribution channels
• Detailed views of customer segments, including home, business, and public sectors
• Form factor trends and outlook
• PC interface trend and outlook
• Notebook forecasts by screen size

1. What are the environmental, secular, and competitive factors affecting buying choices?
2. What are the emerging trends in PC form factors?
3. What interface trends are emerging?
4. What are the winning strategies and innovative approaches of successful vendors?
5. What are the sizes of the various public sector PC markets?
6. What are the adoption rates of different PC interfaces?

IDC's Personal Computing service examines how PC and PC component vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the personal computer market. This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the PC market, including Acer, AMD, Apple, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Motion Computing, MPC (Micron), Panasonic, Sony, Systemax, and Toshiba.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics, or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

This update provides coverage of product introductions, vendor financial announcements, industry events, and technology developments, including clear factual assessments and analysis pertinent to the vendor community and financial analysts.

These studies provide quarterly accounting and analysis of PC shipment data by vendor, form factor, region, and segment, with a look at the quarter about to close.

These studies provide detailed shipment forecasts by region and form factor for the next eight quarters and the next five years.

Whenever there are significant changes in the PC market that differ from our planned forecast updates, we issue a forecast at the midpoint between the dates of the regular forecast update study. This study provides a top-down assessment of U.S. and worldwide forecast changes by form factor and segment.

This study looks at over 15 different specialized form factors in the PC market and forecasts how the dynamics among these form factors will change over time.

This study investigates interface trends for desktop and portable PCs. How interface sets differ between form factors is explored as well as the compatibility of the interfaces within each set.

This study investigates screen size and resolution trends for portable computers.

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