It looks like this has been a year with a huge percentage of PC buying. According to report by IDC, US, it’s a whopping 85 percent in the third quarter itself.

Hewlett Packard (HP), commanding a market share of 21.6 percent, has bagged the big chunk of sales in the segment. Then comes HCL with 12.3 percent and Lenovo (10.3 percent).

If the desktop PC saw a rise, notebook sales have skyrocketed. Notebook PC shipments to home and small office home office (SOHO) segment grew by a galloping 166 percent year-on-year and made up for 43 percent of total notebook shipments. According to the report, a big contributor to this trend has also been the education and enterprise segment.

"Portability rather than mobility has emerged as the number one driver for the sustained growth in notebook PC shipments in India," Kapil Dev Singh, country manager, IDC India, said in a statement.

"In an emerging market like India there still exist many untapped pockets of opportunity for desktops, as shown by the recent signs of revival of this market," said Sanjit Sinha, associate vice president (research), IDC India.

During the period, consumer desktop PC shipments recorded a 10.5 percent year-on-year growth as compared to a percentage decline in shipments recorded during the previous quarter (April-June).

"The desktop market will aim to sustain market momentum by reaching out to the untapped small and medium business enterprises, e-governance projects and consumer infrastructure builds up in C, D and E class cities," Sinha added.