PCs

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