PCs

The researcher blamed the decline on the Chinese production crunch and inflationary pressure with all the top vendors suffering drops

All the major vendors saw a drop in shipments

One analyst’s figures show the market experienced the sharpest decline in nine years

The analyst claims PCs are expected to experience the ‘steepest decline’ of all device segments this year

The analyst’s data found that most major European countries have recorded decreases

The market was driven up by inflation and a shift away from cheaper education and consumer devices in favour of higher-value models

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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