Personal Computer Market Saw 2.7% Upturn in 2002. HP is the Number One

[Adul]

Gartner announced their preliminary worldwide personal computer market research results this week. They note in the report that PC market returned to positive growth in 2002, as worldwide PC shipments totaled 132.4 million units, a 2.7% increase from 2001, according to preliminary results from Dataquest, a unit of Gartner. In 2001, worldwide PC shipments declined 4%, but in the second half of 2002, the worldwide PC market had two consecutive quarters of year-on-year PC shipment growth.

What is also important, Carly Fiorina?s Empire is still the number one PC vendor on the planet. Of course, we should note that the total share of Compaq and HP is lower than their share a year ago due to merge and consolidation of businesses. Meanwhile Michael Dell?s horde continues to expand their market presence. Take a look:


http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1043166638

HP share drop 9% :Q, dell gain 18.3

 

[RanDum72]

HP/Compaq is all over the retail market, from Costco, Radioshack, CompUSA, etc..You cannot go to a 'tech' store without seeing them for sale. But Dell's figures are still amazing considering that they have no retail presence, only direct selling. I wouldn't be surprised to see Dell as number 1 at the end of this year.

 

[Eug]

One might argue that Fujitsu-Siemens should be on that worldwide list. If so, then it'd be:

HP/Compaq
Dell
IBM
Fujitsu-Siemens
NEC

The US market is considerably different:

27.9% Dell
19.8% HP/Compaq
5.9% Gateway
5.5% IBM
3.7% Apple

By the way, to me the best quality computers of the US bunch are in 4th and 5th place. The first three are simply cheap.

RamDum, what you're seeing is the US experience. Dell is already #1 in the US, by a large margin. It's possible they may win that top spot for worldwide sales, but I wouldn't necessarily count on it.