PC shipments stories
Two-in-ones saw a 77% year on year increase in shipments in Q3 at a time when the overall PC market dropped 14% and tablets were down 20%.
Lenovo leads Q3 PC market despite shipment decline; HP, Dell secure top spots while Apple gains market share and Acer faces significant drop.
While the latest PC shipment data from IDC and Gartner makes for gloomy reading, both analyst firms believe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
PC shipments have seen their steepest decline in nearly two years, plummeting 9.5%, but Gartner says the market will return to steady growth in 2016.
With a global PC market slump of 7% in Q1 2015, analysts remain sceptical that the launch of Windows 10 will revive PC sales despite Microsoft's efforts.
PC-maker records growing sales to defy struggling PC market, becoming the number one vendor in the laptop industry.
HP reports a record loss of USD $8.9 billion, following an acquisition that underperformed. Revenue dropped 5% to USD $29.7 billion in Q3.
The brakes are expected to start coming off PC spending in the later half of next year, with IDC predicting a return to growth in PC shipments.
PC shipments are set to continue their downward trajectory through 2016 according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.
PC shipments are set to continue their downward trajectory through 2016 according to the latest report from IDC, and the New Zealand news is no better.
Higher spending in the consumer segment has driven growth in the Australian PC market, with end users migrating back to notebooks, says IDC.
The report says 1.8 million units were shipped in the second quarter of 2011, representing a 7% year-on-year improvement.
