Scalper1 News
Dell retook the U.S. personal computer shipment lead for the first time in over six years in Q1 as former No. 1 HP Inc. ( HPQ ) stumbled, market research firms Gartner and IDC reported late Monday. HP had been the top PC vendor in the U.S. for 25 consecutive quarters, IDC said. Dell shipped 3.48 million PCs in the U.S. in Q1, giving it a 25.6% market share, while HP shipped 3.44 million units for a 25.3% market share, IDC said. It was Dell’s first No. 1 ranking in the U.S. since the third quarter of 2009, IDC said. Dell increased its domestic PC unit shipments by 4.2% year over year in the first quarter, while HP’s U.S. shipments declined 14.1%, IDC said. Overall PC shipments in the U.S. fell 5.8% in Q1, IDC said. No. 3 vendor Lenovo increased its shipments by 21.1% to 1.92 million units, giving it a 14.1% market share. No. 4 vendor Apple ( AAPL ) grew its shipments by 5.6% to 1.76 million units, giving it a 13% market share. Gartner ( IT ), which measures the PC market differently from IDC, said Dell was No. 1 in the U.S. in Q1 with a 26.3% market share, followed by HP with 23.7%. On a worldwide basis, PC shipments fell 11.5% to 60.6 million units in the first quarter, IDC said. Gartner put the decline at 9.6%. Gartner said it was the sixth consecutive quarter of global PC shipment declines. Consumer PC sales remain weak, hurt in part by free upgrades to Microsoft ’s ( MSFT ) Windows 10 operating system. Enterprise customers are still mostly testing Windows 10, but adoption by businesses is expected to start in earnest later this year. Lenovo was the top PC vendor worldwide with a 20.1% market share in Q1, IDC said. HP was in second place with a 19.2% market share, followed by Dell (14.9%), Apple (7.4%) and Asus (7.2%), IDC said. Scalper1 News
Scalper1 News