Apple IPad’s ‘Buzz Saw’ Success Cuts Into PC Sales at HP, Dell - Businessweek

Difficult times in the PC business

The iPad is wreaking havoc on the personal-computer market.

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s consumer PC sales plunged 23 percent last quarter, and the company lopped $1 billion off its annual sales forecast. And while rival Dell Inc. beat analysts’ estimates because of corporate demand, its sales to consumers slumped 7.5 percent. More than 70 million tablets like the Apple Inc. iPad will be sold in 2011, a total that will balloon to 246 million in three years, Jefferies & Co. said yesterday.

Apple IPad’s ‘Buzz Saw’ Success Cuts Into PC Sales at HP, Dell - Businessweek