Global PC Sale is Up in Q2
Gartner today announced that worldwide PC shipments for the second quarter of 2008 were 71.9 million units, a 16 percent increase from the second quarter of 2007. Every territory was up by double digits except the U.S. and Japan, which are mature markets.
PC shipments in the U.S. reached 16.5 million units in the second quarter of 2008, for a 4.2 percent increase over the same quarter last year. To get there, OEMs had to cut prices aggressively.
“As expected, the U.S. market had a sluggish performance, with growth in low single-digits due to budgetary constraints among both consumers and businesses,” IDC researcher David Daoud said in a statement.
Apple saw U.S. sales jump 38.1% in the quarter, according to Gartner (31.7% says IDC), pushing the company into third place, behind Dell and HP, with an 8.5% market share, compared to 6.4% last year.
Gartner notes steep price declines in the home mobile PC market in the U.S. Also, some companies began looking at buying desktop PCs, rather than laptops, as a way to cut costs.
PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, often called EMEA, reached 23.1 million units for a 23.5 percent increase over 2Q07. Notebook demand was particularly strong, with growth of 40 percent. Asia/Pacific, which includes the red hot Chinese and Indian markets, was up 18.1 percent to 20.1 million units, with 45.6 percent mobile PC growth.
Source: Datamation
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