Despite the slowdown in consumer sales, the PC market is continuing to slowly grow in the third quarter of 2010, according to market research firm iSuppli. Worldwide shipments were at 88.1 million units in Q3 2010, up 6.7 percent from Q2 2010, and up 10.3 percent from Q3 2009. Corporate PC demand in the third quarter was particularly evident: desktop PC shipment sales rose sequentially by 11 percent in the third quarter, compared to only a 4.2 percent increase for notebooks. iSuppli's definition of PCs encompasses desktops, notebooks and entry-level servers.

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Surprising, considering the problems that Dell have been experiencing.

Think it would be interesting to see these sales breakdowns by region. Particularly, how much China is buying with their current technology explosion.

I have a friend who was born in China and teaches here in the U.S. now. He routinely visits family and friends in China. Recently he told me that there are many remote villages where most of the homes still don't have refrigerators. BUT...they have a computer and an Internet connection.