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While worldwide PC shipments are expected to grow 12.2% this year, portable PC volumes are expected to grow 28%, according to industry analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC). Bob O'Donnell, IDC's program vice president for clients and displays, predicts that notebooks will make up more than half of all PC shipments in the U.S. by the third quarter of this year, and he expects the cross-over to notebooks to happen worldwide in 2010. Notebooks began outselling desktops in the fourth quarter of last year in Western Europe, he says, and have outsold desktops in Japan for years, he says.