engine - 1:49 pm on Sep 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

Notebook Growth Declining Sharply [tech.fortune.cnn.com]

•NPD data showing that after six months of decelerating growth, U.S. retail notebook unit growth fell 4% year over year in August, marking the first time those numbers had actually gone negative. •Similar data for the first week of September showing that units fell 4% year over year again. •BestBuy CEO Brian Dunn's widely repeated remarks in the Wall Street Journal that "internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent."