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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. In his book Natural Capitalism , author Paul Hawken writes that when you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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In his book Natural Capitalism , author Paul Hawken writes that when you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007.