Apple pc shipment reach to 353 million units in 2011
January 12 news, Gartner PC shipments in the fourth quarter statistics released today the fourth quarter, worldwide PC shipments to 92.2 million units, representing a decline of 1.4% over the same period in 2010; annual total shipments of 353 million PC units , compared with 0.5% growth in 2010, of which the strongest brands in the performance of association, annual shipments of 45.7 million units, 19.7% annual growth, followed by Asus, shipped 20.77 million units, 9.9% annual growth, annual growth rate of only sub-association, the second for the top five strong brands, but also to replace Toshiba to become the fifth largest PC brands.
The performance of the same brands in the fourth quarter, Hewlett-Packard remains the world's first shipments of 14.71 million units, compared with 16.2% decline over the same period in 2010, second only to the fourth decline in the macro? In the fourth quarter shipments of 9.823 million units, year on year decreased 18.4%, ranked behind Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, continued to show strong growth momentum, shipments of 12.931 million units, up 23 percent compared with 2010, the third volume of 11.633 million units to Dell, the annual growth of 7.8%, fifth, compared with Asus.
According to Gartner, by 2011 annual global PC shipments totaled 353 million units, representing a slight increase of 0.5% in 2010, despite solid growth in the commercial PC market, but weak consumer PC market, especially in mature markets, the overall market into a near- The main reason for stagnation and emerging markets due to low PC penetration, so still and stable growth.
In the annual ranking of the top five PC plant, Dell, Lenovo has gone beyond the second largest brands through aggressive pricing strategy and improved market share acquisition Medion NEC and annual shipments of 45.7 million units. HP places 60.55 million units ranked the top spot, Dell is out of 42.86 million units, ranking the third, the macro? Out of 39.41 million units, down 19.2%, ranking fourth out of 20.77 million units Asus, compared with 2010 increase of 9.9% annual growth rate second only to Lenovo, ranked sixth from 2010 was promoted to fifth, replacing the Toshiba.
Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa (Mikako Kitagawa) said that in the fourth quarter continued low consumer PC demand, increased economic uncertainty in Western Europe, North America is expected to have better economic prospects, as well as robust growth in emerging markets and business PC, are PC can not push up the demand, resulting in negative growth in the overall market; and the impact of floods in Thailand in October last year, one hard drive, Gatner that its fourth-quarter PC shipments and prices relatively low, the impact is expected to flood the main effect will gradually appear, on this year half feeling more obvious, and continue throughout the year, affecting PC shipments growth this year.
In addition, Mikako Kitagawa said, Ultrabook in the fourth quarter holiday shopping season is not a big market, has not yet attracted the attention of consumers, consumer awareness of Ultrabook still small, only a small number of consumers willing to pay a higher amount of purchase.
In the U.S. market, in the fourth quarter PC shipments for the 17.93 million units, compared with the same period in 2010 decreased 5.9%, Gartner said the move shows that the U.S. is not the Christmas holiday sales boost for PC manufacturers to bring the good news, and other consumer products distributed the attention, especially smart phones and tablet.