HP and Dell Still Dominating U.S. PC Sales
IDC has just released sales statistics for computer purchases in the U.S. and, as far as the top few players go, nothing much has changed.
HP, Dell and Acer remain the top three players in the computer market in the United States. HP accounts for 25.7 percent of the U.S. computer market, compared to 25.4 percent last year. Meanwhile, Dell experienced a little bit of a dip, accounting for 24 percent of the market, down from 24.4 percent in the same period 2009. Acer's market share also fell by a small margin, clocking in at 11 percent, down from 12.3 in Q2 of last year. Apple ranked in at number four, with 8.8 percent (up from 8.6 percent in Q2'09) and Toshiba comes in fifth place with 8.5 percent, a full percentage point more than in the same quarter 2009.
Worldwide, the top three spots are the same, with HP, Dell and Acer accounting for 18.1 percent, 13 percent and 12.6 percent respectively. Lenovo comes in fourth place with 10.2 percent, while Toshiba and Asus are tied for fifth place with 5.3 percent each.
Check out the tables below for more information, or head on over to IDC for the full press release.
*Units are in the thousands. Images via IDC
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That means 60.7 % of the consumers are buying overpriced, under powered rigs with a shiny case & big display. (sigh)
Yes it does.. but at least they're not quite as over-priced as Apple. It's also pretty daunting for a non-computer buff to peice together a computer.
I wish they would release a chart showing home users rather than all sales so we can get a better idea, most businesses I go into have a DELL or a HP, loads of folks have an ACER laptop but they sell cheap for latops and folks like that.