India sees strong demand for notebooks, tablets in Q2 2020 amid Covid-19 lockdown

The pandemic has given way to a new working culture across the globe. Since the nationwide lockdown, everyone is staying indoors and working from home. This has increased dependency on laptops more than ever before. The latest report from Canalys shows demand for notebooks and tablets has gone up but despite that shipments of desktops, notebooks, tablets and workstations in India fell 33 per cent year on year in Q2 2020 to reach 2.9 million units.

The report reveals that due to falling demand and preference for notebooks, desktops underperformed with shipments halving from Q2 2019, down from 884,000 to 440,000. However, shipments of notebooks also shrunk 32 per cent year on year while tablets performed better than average with shipments down 9 per cent to 740,000 units.