Global PC Market Swells by 55% in Q1 2021 To 82.7 Million (canalys.com) 11
The latest data from research firm Canalys shows continued strength in the worldwide PC market in the first quarter of 2021, with shipments of desktops and notebooks, including workstations, up 55% year on year. From the report: Though this growth rate was buoyed by a weak Q1 2020, total shipments of 82.7 million units is still impressive, and the highest Q1 shipment number since 2012. Backlogs on orders from 2020, particularly for notebooks, were a key driver, though new demand is also a factor as smaller businesses begin their recoveries. Shipments of notebooks and mobile workstations increased 79% year on year to reach 67.8 million units. Desktops improved slightly at the start of 2021 after a string of poor quarters in 2020, with the level of shipment decline easing. Shipments of desktop and desktop workstations fell 5% year on year to 14.8 million units.
The strong recovery from a weak Q1 2020 saw all vendors in the top five achieve double-digit year-on-year shipment growth. Lenovo maintained pole position in the PC market, securing a 25% market share and posting year-on-year growth of 61%, with shipments of 20.4 million units. HP, spurred by strong Chromebook shipments, came second with total shipments of 19.2 million units, a 64% increase on Q1 2020. Dell lost market share against Q4, but took third place in the rankings, growing shipments 23% year on year to hit 12.9 million units. Apple and Acer made up the rest of the top five, shipping 6.6 million and 5.7 million units to enjoy the highest and second-highest annual growth respectively. Cumulatively, the top five vendors accounted for 78.5% of all PC shipments in Q1 2021.
The strong recovery from a weak Q1 2020 saw all vendors in the top five achieve double-digit year-on-year shipment growth. Lenovo maintained pole position in the PC market, securing a 25% market share and posting year-on-year growth of 61%, with shipments of 20.4 million units. HP, spurred by strong Chromebook shipments, came second with total shipments of 19.2 million units, a 64% increase on Q1 2020. Dell lost market share against Q4, but took third place in the rankings, growing shipments 23% year on year to hit 12.9 million units. Apple and Acer made up the rest of the top five, shipping 6.6 million and 5.7 million units to enjoy the highest and second-highest annual growth respectively. Cumulatively, the top five vendors accounted for 78.5% of all PC shipments in Q1 2021.
Work from home + pent up demand (Score:2, Interesting)
Seeing bread and butter PC sales going up isn't a bad thing, be it because of crypto mining, working from home, playing games, or just replacing old hardware. The desktop and server are pretty much the last vestige of open computing there is, so having more non locked down machines is always a good thing.
Of course, there will be people wanting to lock down the desktop (a la Window S) in the name of "security". But for now, it still is an open platform.
Re: Work from home + pent up demand (Score:2)
Supply/demand (Score:2)
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You buy a whole PC or laptop with one installed.
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Exactly. I bought a powerful Dell G5-5000 in December of 2020 for $400 off. It contained the current generation AMD GPU in it. I cannot complain.
It costs me $2.50 in electricity to mine $2.50 in Dogecoin.
The PC is Dead! (Score:2)
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I argued with them then, I still call them fools. People who simply do not understand users. bwahahahahaha!
Re: The PC is Dead! (Score:2)
Now the iPad is dead.
Look at tablet sales. All tablets offered are quite outdated. Tiny RAM, and such. Because really, the demand is pretty much dead. People get bigger smartphones instead, or, if they want to do work, a proper laptop or PC. The former can play tablet too nowadays, but they got an actual keyboard, ane actually usable specs.
Better Products (Score:3)
A couple of years back a good laptop was hard to find.
Between bad keyboards (apple keyboards, missing escape keys, qwerty part shoved to the left to squeeze a numpad in etc), bad trackpads (most laptops except apple), crappy 1080p screens, pitiful RAM (8GB?), pitiful storage (rotating disks, 256G etc), a lack of ports (missing one or more of HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, thunderbolt, memory card slot, headphone jack) and poor battery life resulting from a counterproductive race for thinness, good laptops were hard to find.
Apple fixed their keyboard and brought back the escape key. MSI and Microsoft came out with tolerable combinations of features recently. Decent laptops are becoming more available these days. Is it a surprise that people have started buying them at a higher rate?
I had my tick list - 64Gig ram. 2 TB storage. Higher than 1080p screen. centered keyboard. Sufficient movement in the keys. USB-A and C. There was a period where such a beast stopped existing when it was previously available. Laptop makers are their own worst enemy.
Re: Better Products (Score:2)
A couple of years back I bought a used Thinkpad, X series, with everything I needed, including a SSD. Only the screen sucked. But it was for doing work, not watxhing movies. Got two spare batteries to swap too.
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Well I had a Thinkpad work laptop too - I plugged it into a monitor so there was actually space to see code and signals.
But for watching movies anywhere but on a plane (which didn't happen in 2020 anyway), screw that. Coding, writing, simulating, designing circuits and faffing on the internet is I mostly do on my laptop and it's just nicer with a better screen.
and that was the end (Score:1)