The market was driven up by inflation and a shift away from cheaper education and consumer devices in favour of higher-value models
What have Gartner, Canalys and IDC said on the PC market’s first quarter performance?
Dell, Apple, and ASUS were the only top-tier vendors that saw year on year global PC shipment growth
Dell and Lenovo were the only two vendors to experience growth in Q4
Notebooks fell 28 per cent due to a drop in Chromebooks as the education market reached saturation
Their growth has been accelerated by the growing hybrid working model
Chromebook’s saw a sharp slump leaving the market’s top Chromebook vendor to suffer a dramatic fall
IDC’s data found both markets recorded their first decline since the onset of the pandemic
2021 figures continue to struggle against last year’s exceptional performance driven by remote working
Supply issues remained a problem but didn’t derail HP from regaining the top spot