As if we didn’t have enough already, here comes some more bad tech news.
Tech research company Gartner said Wednesday that during the fourth quarter of 2008, the worldwide PC industry suffered its slowest growth rate since 2002. Gartner reported that worldwide shipments of PCs totaled 78.1 million units, which was just a 1.1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2007.
The region most affected by the recession in terms of PC growth was Asia/Pacific, which “recorded the worst shipment growth since Gartner started its PC statistics research,” said Mika Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner’s Client Computing Markets group. Comparatively, in the U.S., the PC market declined 10 percent, which is the worst shipment decline since the last U.S. recession in 2001.
The biggest winner in this time period was Acer, which continued to show incredible growth with PC shipments growing 31.1 percent worldwide and 55.4 percent in the U.S.
The biggest loser was Dell, which declined 16.4 percent in the U.S., where it leads the region for computer shipments.
Post by Sean Ludwig
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