Official figures have revealed that sales of personal computers across India managed to rise by 26% during 2009's October-December quarter, on an year-to-year basis, pointing at a strengthening recovery. The numbers were released by the research firm IDC on Friday.

While the sales of desktop computers surged by 14.6% as compared to last year, to 1.27 million units, those of notebook PCs hiked by more than half to 93,911 units in the three months up-to December 31, 2009, taking the total figure to 1.97 million units for the entire quarter.

"With multiple factors like economic revival, technological developments, increasing relevance for the users and right price points all converging, we are at the beginning of yet another growth curve in the domestic PC market", IDC India's Country Manager Kapil Dev Singh said.

Dell managed to usurp HP as the market leader to become the top seller of notebook PCs across India.