IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Notebook Tracker leverages IDC's long history and experience in tracking the PC market. Focused specifically on the notebook PC form factor, this product provides detailed notebook-specific data cuts such as spindle, screen size, and optical drive information, to enable notebook product managers and companies to measure their competition in specific notebook sub-segments. As the PC market migrates from desktops to notebooks, this information becomes increasingly valuable as the market evolves into newer designs and different types of notebooks ranging from ultraportables to desktop replacements.

This product covers the following segments of the Notebook market:

• Consumer notebooks
• Commercial notebooks
• Ultra Portable and Notebooks

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• Notebook PC unit shipments, value, processors, price bands, segments, and channels
• Breakdowns by spindle, optical drive, screen size
• Unit shipment forecasts provided for segments
• WLAN attach rates, integrated 3G, SSDs, processor types, and emerging form factors (such as Tablet PCs and UMPCs)
• Other technology developments in this rapidly evolving market

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What is the size of the notebook market in the countries in Asia/Pacific?
2. Which vendor has the best selling notebook in the ultraportable, desktop replacement, and tablet PC markets?
3. Which customer segments offer the greatest opportunity for notebook shipment growth in the Asia/Pacific region?
4. What kind of emerging technologies (such as optical drives) are being sold with notebooks today?
5. What kind of processors sell better in notebooks in the various countries?

IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Notebook Tracker provides comprehensive analysis of the overall strategy and performance of the major vendors in the region. Examples of vendors tracked include:

Acer, Apple, ASUS, ATEC, BenQ, Compower, Dell, FTEC, Founder, Fujitsu, Haier, Hasee, HCL, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, LG Electronics, NEC, Optima, Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony, SVOA, TCL, Toshiba, Trigem, Twinhead, Zenith, and more.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. Potential studies include:

• Notebook unit shipments and revenue by:

- application segment

- distribution channels

- price bands

- other new technologies as they develop

- processor

- screen size, optical drive, and spindle count

• 4 quarters' notebook unit shipment and revenue forecast
• 5-year notebook unit shipment and revenue forecast

• Preliminary data, which provides summary tables of the top 10 vendor rankings by country (Excel tables)
• Final data, with detailed country data tables and forecasts.
• A database is also provided in an interactive Pivot Table format, so as to allow for customized analysis and segmentation with a high level of granularity, including splits by spindle count, screen size, optical drive, channel, segment, processor type, price band, and others.
• Inquiry hours for direct access to IDC analysts

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.

Our steady growth over the past 10 years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.