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PC shipments grew 27% in Q1

by Scott Bicheno on 15 April 2010, 09:39

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), Gartner (NYSE:IT)

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Preliminary figures from market researcher Gartner record worldwide PC shipment growth of 27 percent in the first quarter of this year. Gartner had previously predicted growth of 22 percent, so that's a bit of a result.

Even better news for the UK is that the main reason the PC market over-achieved was the EMEA region. "The stronger-than-expected growth was led by a robust recovery in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) PC market, which grew 24.8 percent in the first quarter of 2010," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.

"These first quarter results indicate that the professional PC market is gradually picking up, driven by PC replacements in mature markets. With a relatively positive macroeconomic outlook, business demand was more forthcoming. Major PC replacement demand driven by Windows 7 will become more apparent in the second half of 2010 and the beginning of 2011."

There were some intriguing trends among the vendors. HP is still number one, but it lost a chunk of market share to the chasing pack - especially Far-Eastern vendors like Acer and Lenovo - while ASUS narrowly overtook Toshiba, on the back of over 100 percent growth, to become the world's fifth biggest PC vendor. It's no coincidence that the best performers focus primarily on notebooks.

Preliminary Worldwide PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 1Q10 (Thousands of Units)


Company

1Q10 Shipments

1Q10 Market Share (%)

1Q09 Shipments

1Q09 Market Share (%)

1Q09-1Q10 Growth (%)

HP

15,319

18.2

12,773

19.3

19.9

Acer

12,003

14.2

7,779

11.7

54.3

Dell

10,209

12.1

8,406

12.7

21.4

Lenovo

6,977

8.3

4,384

6.6

59.2

ASUS

4,647

5.5

2,164

3.3

114.8

Toshiba

4,623

5.5

3,404

5.1

35.8

Others

30,565

36.2

27,309

41.2

11.9

Total

84,344

100.0

66,220

100.0

27.4

Note: Data includes desk-based PCs and mobile PCs.
Source: Gartner (April 2010)

 



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I wonder why?

Upgraditis from new Intel i-series chips? Win 7 gaining tempo? Or just an improved feeling of general financial well-being in that the worst pain of the “recession” didn't materialise ….. yet.
great, lets get out of the recession with hardware; works for me!