Laptops were the first popular desktop PCs.

In the third quarter of this year in the world for the first time sold more notebooks than desktops, PC World said, referring to the data analysis company iSuppli.
According to iSuppli, in the third quarter of 2008 in the world have been sold 38.6 million notebook PCs. Desktop computers for the same period has sold 38.5 million. Compared with the same period last year, sales of notebooks grew by 40 percent, while desktops fell by 1.3 percent.
Overall, in the third quarter of 2008 was issued on 79 million computers, which is 15.4 per cent increase over 2007. Is the market leader HP, sold for the quarter, 14.9 million computers. Second place is the company Dell, which for three months has sold 11 million computers.
Representatives iSuppli emphasize that a significant role in the growth of sales of notebooks have played netbuki. So, thanks largely to its ultradeshevym Acer Laptop for the quarter increased sales by 45 percent. Last year sales of Acer computers grew by 79 percent.
Meanwhile, the Japan market share of notebook PCs in November this year amounted to 71,1 percent. Last month, the Japanese market has been sold to 457 thousand and 185 thousand laptops desktops.