Dive Brief:
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Certified mobile workstations — or business machines that are certified to work with certain graphics-intensive business applications — saw a sales increase of 5.4% year on year in Q2 2015, according to IDC.
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Total shipments of mobile workstations rose, even as desktop workstation shipments declined.
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According to IDC, HP is the leading vendor in the desktop workstation market, followed by Dell and Lenovo.
Dive Insight:
Analysts say the growth may be due to the fact that laptops are finally powerful enough to enable graphics-intensive business applications once limited to desktop machines.
"The market is expected to continue growing as high-end PC users and Apple Mac Pro users migrate to [mobile] workstations," said Ebenezer Obeng-Nyarkoh, a senior research analyst at IDC.
Ultimately, this data could prove useful for enterprises that may be considering a transition to Windows 10, IDC said.
