(Credit: IDC)
Lenovo is now the top dog in a market still struggling to revive.
Among the world’s top five PC vendors, Lenovo fared the best last quarter, showing just a 1.4 percent drop in PC shipments. That loss was just low enough to give it a market share of 16.7 percent, according to IDC’s Quarterly PC Tracker. Dropping to second place, HP saw its shipments drop by 7.7 percent, earning it a global share of 16.4 percent.
The two contenders duked it out in a market that’s still on the ropes but seems to be fighting back.
Global PC shipments for the second quarter hit 75.6 million, a decline of 11.4 percent from last year’s second quarter. But the numbers were slightly better than IDC had anticipated and not as bad as the 14 percent drop experienced in the first quarter.
Shipments in Europe, Africa (EMEA), and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) weren’t as high as forecast, but those in the U.S. fared better than expected, balancing out the overall results.
The PC market in stuck in the middle of a transition from conventional notebooks to touch-based devices outfitted with Windows 8, IDC noted. The high prices of ultrabooks are a… [Read more]
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