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New Zealand PC market contracts; HP tops sales charts

It's no blue screen of death, but the local PC market is running a little slow. Sales declined 4.7% during the third quarter, IDC says.

The market researcher has also slashed its worldwide forecast for 2009, now expecting a 5.3% drop – which would make it the PC market's worst year since the tech-wreck/millennium bug upgrade hangover of 2002.