Latest reports indicate that the PC market in Western European countries has declined by around 12.8 percent during the third quarter of 2013 ending September.
The research firm Gartner’s report have shown that around 11.9 million PC units were shipped in Western Europe during the quarter – a 12.8 percent decline as compared to the last year’s same period. Mobile PC shipments have declined by 14.5 percent while 9.8 percent decline has been registered in desktop shipments during the quarter.
The professional PC market shipments declined by about 8.3 percent in the quarter with the consumer PC market shipments dropping by 17.1 percent. Switching of consumers from PCs to tablets has resulted in PC shipments downfall, says Meike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner.
“The transition from PCs to tablets continued to reduce PC sales. In addition, product transitions to ‘Haswell’ and ‘Bay Trail’ processors, and preparations for the launch of Windows 8.1 and associated new products, meant that vendors were careful about managing inventory and focused on clearing out stock in the distribution channel”, she added.
HP with record flat year-over-year results evolved as the number one vendor for the month, followed by Lenovo which replaced Acer to take the number two spot. Apple also made its debut among the top five PC vendors replacing Asus from the top five list.
Out of all the Western European countries Gartner tracked, UK suffered the worst PC shipment downfall. Around 2.3 million PC units were shipped during Q3 – a 21.2 percent year-on-year drop.
