PC sales drop another 10 percent

PC market keeps losing to tablets

According
to Gartner PC sales dropped 10.9 percent in the past quarter. It is the fifth
time in a row sales have dropped, which is “directly tied to the shrinking installed
base of PCs, as inexpensive tablets displace the low-end machines used
primarily for consumption in mature and developed markets,” said Mikako
Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.

Jay Chou of
IDC, who says sales dropped 11.4 percent, says the market is “still struggling
with the transition to touch-based systems running Windows 8” and he continues
by saying that producers are still not able in “justifying ultrabook prices in
the face of economic pressures and competition from tablets and other devices.”

Lenovo new world market leader

Hewlett-Packard
has lost its worldwide leadership to Lenovo. The Chinese now control 16.7
percent of the PC market, while HP has to get by with 16.4 percent. Dell is
also on the podium with 12.2 percent, while Acer and Asus slightly drop back.

In the
United States HP and Dell still make up half of the market. Apple remains
stable at 11.5 percent.