Net income in the year-earlier period was US$178 million, or US$0.53 a share, on sales of US$1.18 billion.
Desktop PC unit sales in US stores more than doubled for Thanksgiving week from the week before, compared with 74 percent week-on-week growth a year earlier, according to a Salomon Smith Barney report.
Hewlett-Packard Co last week said sales the day after Thanksgiving beat expectations. Gateway Inc executives also have offered optimistic remarks for the season.
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