PC sales down again in last quarter of 2013, reports Gartner

[PillowSmoke]

 

PC sales had a bad run in 2013, with Gartner having reported poor shipments numbers throughout the year. Now that 2013 has come to an end, the final numbers are in, and it turns out 2013 was the worst year in the market's history, in terms of sales declining. Overall, the fourth-quarter PC shipments dropped 6.9-percent, coming in at 82.6 million units shipped globally.

 

According to the report, Lenovo came out on top, with fourth-quarter shipments hitting 14,932,408 units, a year-on-year growth of 6.6-percent. HP was second in place at 13,592,600 shipments -- the year wasn't as kind to HP as it was to Lenovo, however, dropping over 2012's fourth quarter by 7.2-percent. Dell was third at 9,773,821 shipments, and year-on-year was similar to Lenovo's with a growth of 6.2-percent.

 

Rounding out the top five was Acer at 6,474,738 shipments and a massive drop of 16-percent year-on-year. Last but not least is ASUS, with shipments coming in at 5,399,000 shipments and a decrease year-on-year of 11.1-percent. Including the other smaller companies, overall year's PC growth decreased by 6.9-percent.

 

Said Gartner Principal Analyst Mikako Kitagawa: "Although PC shipments continued to decline in the worldwide market in the fourth quarter, we increasingly believe markets, such as the U.S., have bottomed out as the adjustment to the installed base slows. Strong growth in tablets continued to negatively impact PC growth in emerging markets. In emerging markets, the first connected device for consumers is most likely a smartphone, and their first computing device is a tablet. As a result, the adoption of PCs in emerging markets will be slower as consumers skip PCs for tablets."

 

Source: http://www.slashgear.com/pc-sales-down-again-in-last-quarter-of-2013-reports-gartner-09312661/

[MatheusSanzo]

Oh, what a surprise.

[Blue fellow]

That's a nasty keyboard, couldn't they at least have used a clean keyboard for a picture? 

[amdart11]

repost http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/100129-gartner-pc-shipments-have-dropped-69-percent-in-q4-2013-emerging-markets-to-blame/

[beefalo]

I really want to see figures for individual CPU sales from Intel and amd. That would give a much more realistic picture of desktop PC use.

[Osmium]

I really want to see figures for individual CPU sales from Intel and amd. That would give a much more realistic picture of desktop PC use.

Not really. I would imagine more people buy actual dells than CPUs. The PC builder crowd is a fairly niche market (although it really shouldn't be).

[Faceplosion]

As a Windows 8 user, I can safely say I won't be buying a new, prebuilt computer until Windows 9. Windows 8 feels like using a library computer, it just locks you out of doing so many things. I've tried installing Ubuntu 3 times, which I did easily on my Windows 7 computer. The new OS just makes dealing with your computer an absolute nightmare, it has so many things that make it feel like it's not actually your computer (why yes, I would love to have ten* times as many preinstalled applications!)

 

 

*=number may or may not have been pulled out of my ***.

[deathjester]

Not really. I would imagine more people buy actual dells than CPUs. The PC builder crowd is a fairly niche market (although it really shouldn't be).

 

Yeah that would explain Nvdia, AMD rolling in cash...and Steam being at an all time high.

 

Sorry people aren't buying Dell's cus they suck. The survey included notebooks and not tablets. Therefore it is a farce. Notebooks became useless with tablets. 

 

This is just Gartner selling tablets and consoles like they always do. Gartner is a joke. This survey is a joke. PC gaming has never been better and is growing like crazy. I mean look at how forums like this have grown. Why? Cus the Dude who got a dell wants to build his own PC...

[Rassilon]

As a Windows 8 user, I can safely say I won't be buying a new, prebuilt computer until Windows 9. Windows 8 feels like using a library computer, it just locks you out of doing so many things. I've tried installing Ubuntu 3 times, which I did easily on my Windows 7 computer. The new OS just makes dealing with your computer an absolute nightmare, it has so many things that make it feel like it's not actually your computer (why yes, I would love to have ten* times as many preinstalled applications!)

*=number may or may not have been pulled out of my ***.

[Grape Guild]

I honestly think it's because of the release of the new consoles.  No that they're better, people are just spending their money on that because it's "new".

[MzCatieB]

This is what happens when we get people playing candy crush and angry birds on their mobiles of tablets... no real users of computer anymore just children with simplified crap

[xox]

Nobody wants one nowadays.

[deathjester]

Why was my post that included monetary numbers taken off this thread? Anyone who takes a look at Gartner would know they have predicted the "death of the pc" for decades. 

 

Here is the "death of the pc" LAWL.

 

I honestly think it's because of the release of the new consoles.  No that they're better, people are just spending their money on that because it's "new".

 

Uh no. It is because they fall for laughable surveys which if you read the small print only can prove one thing. Notebooks sales were hurt by tablets. Stop falling for Jedi mind tricks. This "survey" was put up before X Mas and the consoles hit and plastered on every corporate wh0re website there is (like IGN). 

 

 

[NInety]

Why was my post that included monetary numbers taken off this thread? Anyone who takes a look at Gartner would know they have predicted the "death of the pc" for decades. 

 

Here is the "death of the pc" LAWL.

 

 

Uh no. It is because they fall for laughable surveys which if you read the small print only can prove one thing. Notebooks sales were hurt by tablets. Stop falling for Jedi mind tricks. This "survey" was put up before X Mas and the consoles hit and plastered on every corporate wh0re website there is (like IGN). 

 

 

LOL Wii U

[deathjester]

IGN article from 2009...

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/27/the-death-of-pc-gaming-again

 

Oh look another BS Gartner study.

 

IGN article from this year LOL.

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/04/why-pc-gaming-has-exploded

 

Then OF COURSE right before Xmas? Pc gaming was dying again, and there just happened to be new consoles out, and tablets that corporations wanted to sell.

 

You are being played. Gartner is a joke. IGN is an even bigger joke. Tablets suck and will never be good for games due to heat problems with die shrinks. Consoles are pitiful mobile CPU's and a underclocked 78xxx card on the ps4, and probably a 77xx on the Xbox one. 

[DanielColato]

i will never buy a pre built ever. maybe its cause the PC crowd isn't silly

[adiobe]

I hope that those numbers will rise when steam machines will become available, but I'm not sure though that they will see a steam machine as a PC. 

[kuddlesworth9419]

The PC's decline is a load of BS. It is true that less people are buying pre-made PC but more and more are building them. Plus it is also because those that don't even need a PC are choosing to downgrade to a tablet for good reasons. You could say the PC platform is coming together to solidify eventually into a mostly high end platform for either gaming or specialist reasons. This is good as it should make the PC platform less fragmented I hope.