Abstract
This IDC study is the result of IDC' s 2009 Commercial
PC Buyer Survey. Conducted online during June 2009, the survey
polled carefully screened participants about their companies' current commercial PC
use and future plans. Using a Web hosting firm, we
conducted the survey in seven countries — the United States,
the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Germany, India, and Japan —
gathering a total of 1,682 respondents.
This document covers the U.S.-only
portion of the survey, which yielded 405 IT decision makers.
It looks at both current and future PC purchasing trends,
including desktop versus notebook trends, form factors, pricing, and brands.
The second document will look at these same areas of
interests at the global level.
"In a down economy, it comes
as no surprise that businesses are increasingly cautious about their
plans for future PC purchases. Buyers are carefully evaluating new
desktop and notebook form factors, they' re trying new brands, and
they' re holding on to their old PCs for much longer
than in previous years," said Tom Mainelli, senior research analyst
with IDC' s Clients and Displays Group. "At a time when
companies routinely expect to keep their old PC for at
least four years, vendors must become increasingly receptive to the
business opportunities that do appear."
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