Submitted by Both IDC and Gartner have released their PC shipment analyses again, and as it turns out, worldwide PC sales are on the rise. Gartner: “Worldwide PC shipments surpassed 85.2 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 2.3 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. These results are below Gartner’s earlier projection for 6.7 percent growth.” IDC, too: “Worldwide PC shipments increased 2.6% in the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.” From large to small, the world’s largest PC manufacturers are HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, and Toshiba. Lenovo demonstrated the largest growth worldwide (+22% compared to Q2 2010). Apple did quite well in the US, but doesn’t register on the worldwide scale.
Data includes desk-based PCs, mobile PCs, including mini-notebooks but not media tablets such as the iPad
Seems Gartner got it wrong. Anyone got time to merge the data to give us the real picture?
If we include iPads in the numbers, Apple is the #2 manufacturer of PCs in the world and very close to #1. Apple sold 4.3M macs. If you add the iPads and Macs it gets a few hundred thousand past 14M range. That would be more than Dell by far and close to HP’s 14,888,086 figure.
Disruptive.
http://www.asymco.com/2011/04/25/estimates-for-apples-third-fiscal-…
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/12/ipad-sales-estimates-for-fis…
Edited 2011-07-15 20:01 UTC
But didn’t you guys disagree with me when I said the Pad was a PC?
I think people may have taken issue with how you classified it… you in essence saying that is the same type of product when in fact its very different despite it still being a personal computer in the traditional sense.
Edited 2011-07-15 22:10 UTC
Lenovo has 33.5% of the market share in China and the rising disposable income of 1.3 Billion citizens together with local brand loyalty will probably push them to the biggest pc manufacturer in the next ten years.
They are going back in time to become the PC maker.
I didn’t submit this. Why is my name attributed to it?
Edited 2011-07-15 20:03 UTC
Uhm, yes you did. That’s how we’ve been doing this at OSN for over ten years: if your stuff gets published unaltered, you get “written/linked by”; if you submit something and it gets re-written, you get a “submitted by”.
I could have sworn I submitted a different link
Links get changed. Your item focused on the US first, world later. Considering I’m not American, I’m more interested in worldwide figures.
And since when is it a problem to actually link to the *original sources of the figures*?
It’s not “wrong” but I submitted a link with a quote. You found a totally different link which naturally brings about a totally different quote. Now, neither the quote nor the link is what I submitted yet its still attributed to me. I chose the link I submitted because it offered thought behind the numbers… something I thought might be more interesting for this site’s readers.
It’s not a big deal but I’m just saying… it wasn’t me. That’s all.
Edited 2011-07-15 22:36 UTC
Yeah, I agree with those who say one needs to include tablets and smartphones to really get a firm overview of what’s happening in consumer computer shipments. Nevertheless, thanks for providing a link to this data… sometimes it’s hard to find Gartner numbers because you never know what they’ll make public versus subscription-only.