{"id":63279,"date":"2014-04-14T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63279"},"modified":"2014-04-14T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T10:04:19","slug":"most-popular-pc-brands-of-2014-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63279-most-popular-pc-brands-of-2014-so-far","title":{"rendered":"Most popular PC brands of 2014 so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following last week’s news that global PC shipments were down for the eighth straight quarter<\/a>, we can reveal which PC manufacturers are bucking the trend and dominating the international pre-built unit market.<\/p>\n

Below is a table displaying which vendors performed best in the first three months of 2014, and by what margin they have increased their share, according to research firm Gartner.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Wordwide PC Vendor Shipments: Q1 2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company<\/strong><\/td>\nShipments Q1 2014
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Market Share % Q1 2014
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Shipments Q1 2013<\/strong><\/td>\nMarket Share % Q1 2013<\/strong><\/td>\nGrowth % from ’13 – ’14<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lenovo<\/td>\n12,907,344<\/strong><\/td>\n16.9<\/strong><\/td>\n11,641,152<\/td>\n14.9<\/td>\n10.9<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HP<\/td>\n12,248,274<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n11,770,542<\/strong><\/td>\n15.1<\/strong><\/td>\n4.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dell<\/td>\n9,541,231<\/td>\n12.5<\/td>\n8,755,092<\/td>\n11.2<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Acer Group<\/td>\n5,564,358<\/td>\n7.3<\/td>\n6,534,362<\/td>\n8.4<\/td>\n-14.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asus<\/td>\n5,310,000<\/td>\n6.9<\/td>\n5,064,431<\/td>\n6.5<\/td>\n4.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Others<\/td>\n31,001,926<\/td>\n40.5<\/td>\n34,142,058<\/td>\n43.8<\/td>\n-9.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Note: Data includes desk-based PCs and mobile PCs, including x86 tablets equipped with Windows 8, but excludes Chromebooks and other tablets.<\/p>\n

Lenovo experienced the strongest growth, with a 10.9% increase to 12,907,344 units, while the Acer Group took the biggest knock, losing 14.8% of its market share.<\/p>\n

“The PC market continued to be tough for many vendors. Economies of scale matter tremendously in this high-volume, low-profit market, which is forcing some vendors, such as Sony, out of the market. In contrast, all of the top five vendors, except Acer, registered year-over-year shipment growth.”<\/p>\n

“The top thee vendors \u2014 Lenovo, HP and Dell \u2014 have all confirmed the importance of the PC business as part of their overall business strategies,” said Gartner.<\/p>\n

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Four of the world’s top PC vendors increased their market share in the the pre-built PC sector this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3036,1517,1676,21,12245,6382,11440],"class_list":["post-63279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-acer","tag-asus","tag-dell","tag-headline","tag-hp","tag-lenovo","tag-pc-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63331,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63279\/revisions\/63331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}