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Touch Growth Helps PC Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Global PC monitor shipments in Q3’14 fell 5.1% YoY, to 33.4 million units, according to IDC. Shipments are expected to remain flat, at around 33.5 million units, in Q4’14. Two of the world’s largest …

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Notebooks Profit From Falling Tablets

by Raverstead

Notebook PC shipments were up 10% YoY in Q3, DisplaySearch has said, to 49.4 million units. By comparison, tablet PC shipments fell 8%. The mature markets of North America and Western Europe drove notebook …

Enterprise Clients Fall Slightly After Year of Growth

by Raverstead

Following four consecutive quarters of growth, worldwide shipments of thin and terminal clients were down 1.8% YoY in Q3’14, according to IDC. Shipments totalled 1.35 million units, significantly lower than the forecast 5% growth, …

PCs Rebound But Tablets Fall in Europe

by Raverstead

Increased PC demand was the main driver for smart connected devices (SCDs) in Western Europe in Q3, which posted another period of growth. IDC’s data shows that PC, tablet and smartphone shipments totalled 60.1 …

Q3 PC Gains Do Not Suggest Recovery

by Raverstead

IDC has forecast a 2.7% fall in global PC shipments this year. Although still negative, this represents an improvement from the previous -3.7% forecast. Q3 shipments were down 0.5% YoY, but ‘most regions and …

Workstations Enjoy Second-Highest Quarter Ever

by Raverstead

The workstation market remained healthy in Q3’14, says Jon Peddie Research, with few changes. Just over 1 million units were shipped worldwide, representing a 4.7% YoY rise, although 2.8% QoQ decline. Q2’14 saw the …

Dell Does Well in the PC Market

by Helen Vince

PC – Max Smolaks from the Tech Week Europe reports on the highlights of Michael Dell’s speech at Dell’s Solutions Summit in Brussels. Just a year after Dell delisted from the stock market, many …

IDC: Mature Market PCs Perform Above Emerging Regions

by Super User

IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to fall 3.7% this year. While still a decline, the figure represents an improvement from the previous forecast of -6%. Emerging regions’ shipments are constrained by continued competition from …

Desktop Growth Fails to Boost OGCC PC Market

by Super User

The combined PC market in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar (‘Other Gulf Cooperation Council’ (OGCC) countries) fell 4.2% YoY in Q2’14, says IDC. Shipments to the region totalled 217,698 units. Bahrain was said to …

Q2 Marks End to Workstations’ Sideways Movement

by Super User

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has referred to the workstation market’s Q2’14 as a ‘breakout quarter’ (while admitting that characterising a mature market as ‘breakout’ “verges upon [an] oxymoron”). Q2 saw record levels of unit …

Commercial Demand Bumps Desktops to Positive Growth

by Super User

Global PC shipments will reach 299 million units this year, down 0.1% from 2013, according to Taiwan’s MIC. Shipments have been bolstered by replacement demand for Windows XP units. The majority of desktop PC …

Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 0.5% in Q3

by Super User

Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, a 0.5% decline from Q3 of last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the first time, the sum of …