HP’s PC shipments have exceeded Apple in the first quarter this year
May 2 news, according to the latest news from market research firm Canays, HP’s first quarter PC shipments have exceeded Apple and regain market dominance. Because Canalys take the Tablet PC into the PC shipments, in the fourth quarter of iPad last year, ipad shipments reached a record 15 million units, making the Apple exceeded HP and become the world’s largest PC manufacturers. But in the first quarter of 2012, the Apple iPad shipments are only 11.8 million units, so the PC total volume is only 15.8 million units which ranked in the second place.
Lenovo was ranked third with an increase of 50%. Acer and Dell is still among the list of the top five PC vendors, but the year shipment volume decline. The overall global PC market shipments grew 21 percent to 107 million units. It is noteworthy that, although the Tablet PC market, an increase of 200 percent of desktop and notebook market grew by 11% and 8%, but the netbook market fell 34%, which is also in the field for the sixth consecutive quarter decline.
Canalys analyst Tom Evans said: the majority of the leading PC manufacturers have adopted the possible measures to offset the decline Internet Tablet PC business growth. Samsung and Lenovo’s continued ability to grow more superior, Asus was doing very well. The challenge is to compete with Apple and Amazon, to compete for more market share. At present, only the Samsung Tablet PC single-season shipments to keep more than one million units. ”
From a global point of view, the Tablet PC in the first quarter accounted for 19% of the global PC shipments, a substantial increase compared to 7 percent a year ago, but less than 22 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. Internet from two years ago, 13% fell to 5%.
The release of Microsoft Windows will become an important turning point in the second half of this year. This will cause many consumers to a new PC purchase plan be postponed until the fourth quarter. But then, the price of the thin and light notebooks will be close to a mainstream price, tablet PCs equipped with Windows operating system will also be listed. Windows 8 Can I get a positive response in a variety of PC products will be a key factor. If we can achieve, PC manufacturers in 2013, prospects can be expected.