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Following its modest growth last quarter, the PC market managed its strongest quarter of the year, growing 2.7 percent year on year.
Even so, that recorded growth came well under the 5.5 percent research group IDC had projected. According to the Quarterly PC Tracker Survey released today by IDC, one of the big reasons for this "modest" gain centers on PCs getting competition fromtablets likeApple's iPad, as well as people being happy with computer hardware they already own. That trend is expected to continue into the new year, the report said.
There were, however, some standout numbers and market share changes among the top hardware vendors. Making a comeback, Dell bounced back to the No. 2 spot in total PC shipments during the fourth quarter, ousting Acer, whose drop IDC attributed to poor sales of mini notebook PCs. Facing similar problems was Hewlett-Packard, whose shipments declined 5 percent in the U.S. and 1 percent worldwide, while still still retaining its top spot in both categories.
Shining above some of its competitors, Lenovo saw a 21.1 percent year-on-year growth, which IDC analyst Jay Chou told CNET could be attributed to the company's reach in both consumer and commercial businesses. Chou also lauded Lenovo's business as being "geographically balanced." Toshiba too saw double-digit growth, shipping 12 percent more PCs than it did during the same time last year.
Going into 2011, Chou says that "consumer fatigue" for products like mini notebooks, along with "softening demand in Asia" and other parts of the world could cut into the firm's predictions for a growth of 10 percent over the course of the year. But that "aggressive competition" could bring the market back up in the last two quarters. That softening demand Chou was referring to is the Asia/Pacific region (which does not include Japan), increasing 7 percent during the fourth quarter, which IDC notes is the first single digit growth quarter since the first quarter of 2009.
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Even so, that recorded growth came well under the 5.5 percent research group IDC had projected. According to the Quarterly PC Tracker Survey released today by IDC, one of the big reasons for this "modest" gain centers on PCs getting competition fromtablets likeApple's iPad, as well as people being happy with computer hardware they already own. That trend is expected to continue into the new year, the report said.
There were, however, some standout numbers and market share changes among the top hardware vendors. Making a comeback, Dell bounced back to the No. 2 spot in total PC shipments during the fourth quarter, ousting Acer, whose drop IDC attributed to poor sales of mini notebook PCs. Facing similar problems was Hewlett-Packard, whose shipments declined 5 percent in the U.S. and 1 percent worldwide, while still still retaining its top spot in both categories.
Shining above some of its competitors, Lenovo saw a 21.1 percent year-on-year growth, which IDC analyst Jay Chou told CNET could be attributed to the company's reach in both consumer and commercial businesses. Chou also lauded Lenovo's business as being "geographically balanced." Toshiba too saw double-digit growth, shipping 12 percent more PCs than it did during the same time last year.
Going into 2011, Chou says that "consumer fatigue" for products like mini notebooks, along with "softening demand in Asia" and other parts of the world could cut into the firm's predictions for a growth of 10 percent over the course of the year. But that "aggressive competition" could bring the market back up in the last two quarters. That softening demand Chou was referring to is the Asia/Pacific region (which does not include Japan), increasing 7 percent during the fourth quarter, which IDC notes is the first single digit growth quarter since the first quarter of 2009.
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