WORLDWIDE MOBILE PC SHIPMENTS shot up by 43.4 per cent in the first three months of 2010 from the first quarter of 2009.Beancounters at the industry research firm Gartner claim that this year-over-year growth is the highest the mobile PC market has experienced in eight years and represents about $36 billion in end-user spending.Most of the sales went to the great unwashed but there was also uptake in the professional segment, the firm noted. Gartner expects to see higher growth in the professional market toward the end of 2010 and into 2011.Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner said that the mini-notebook PCs were a big part of the bump in mobile PC shipments in the first quarter, with shipments growing 71 per cent over the same period last year. eBusiness Appraisals . However, mini-notebooks’ share slowed in some regions as consumers begin to understand the limitations of mini-notebooks, especially when there were price cuts of real notebooks.”The average selling price of mobile PCs was $732 in the first quarter of 2010, a 15.7 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2009, when the average price was $868,” Kitagawa said. Prices for mobile PCs are expected to stabilise as sales into the professional market grow, compared to consumer mobile PCs, she indicated.HP is still the top vendor in worldwide mobile PC shipments, as it accounted for 19.2 per cent of shipments in the first quarter. Freight Shipping . synthetic grass installation in los angeles, ca . HP and Dell were the only vendors in the Top 5 to grow below the industry average, while Asus and Acer experienced the strongest growth rates among the top-tier vendors with shipment increases of 113 per cent and 48.4 per cent, respectively