Booming notebook and X86 server sales and healthy desktop shipments ensured a rise in shipments of just under 17 per cent compared to the third quarter last year and follows a similar rise in the previous quarter.
Official figures for the quarter show that shipments of desktop systems rose by 8.7 per cent and X86 servers by 28.7 per cent. However, sales of notebooks have clearly boosted the overall figure – up 51 per cent.
According to Ian Gibbs, research analyst with IDC’s European Personal Computing group, the consumer market remains a key driver of growth. ‘Consumer desktop shipments have actually recovered from the negative growth of last quarter.’
‘Business shipments remain positive also – although it is the small and medium businesses who are driving growth here rather than the large corporates.’
Local vendors such as IQon and Computer City and the internationals such as HP and Dell are all experiencing healthy growth alike, IDC says.
Gibbs says that price declines have really driven growth across all segments this quarter in both desktops and notebooks. ‘However, on the flipside, of course, profit margins are being squeezed and vendor revenues remain fairly even year-on-year.’
In terms of PC vendor growth market share year-on-year, IBM has made by far the biggest strides with a 155 per cent growth over the third quarter in 2002. Next up is ‘new HP’ with 20 per cent, market leader Dell with 16 per cent and third placed Fujitsu Siemens with 12 per cent.
08/12/03
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