A study by Gartner says that in the second quarter, the PC market has reached a historic low for the last ten years - at least if we compare the second quarters of the year. In general, the decline in PC sales in physical terms continues for the eleventh consecutive quarter.
The situation in the last quarter was aggravated by the fact that some PC manufacturers could no longer restrain the growth of prices for products, sacrificing their profits. Meanwhile, memory prices, solid-state drives and displays were kept at a high level, and this increased computers cost . Naturally, the price increase did not add motivation for customers to purchase new PCs. In the corporate segment, the prices regulated by contracts remained fairly stable. HP Inc. Managed
to increase the volume of PC sales by 3.3% compared to the same period last year. Similar changes have been observed for the fifth consecutive quarter. The company, albeit with a small margin, but ahead of Lenovo in the number of sold computers .
Lenovo now gives priority to not increasing the market share, but preserving the profitability of the business, so its sales volumes fell 8.4% in the annual comparison. Laptops running Chrome OS in this statistics do not fall, but over the past year, the volume of their implementation increased by 38%, while the PC market fell by 6%. While chrombook on the totality of its functional features are far from being considered a reasonable replacement for PC in most cases. It's interesting that
Gartner mentions some improvements in the Russian PC market due to the stabilization of the economic situation. Related Products :
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