Research firms Gartner and IDC have released their latest data for Worldwide PC shipments. Though the data provided by both the research firms differ a bit but the conclusions drawn from the data is same. Gartner says that overall 71.1 million PCs were sold in Q1 2008 where as IDC’s number is 69.5 million. The top five vendors in the world were HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba. Apple took the 4th spot in US top five vendors and they were Dell, HP, Acer, Apple and Toshiba. Dell had the best quarter in past two years. HP extended its worldwide lead to 18.3 percent. All the top five vendors in US and worldwide had a growth rate more than the average PC growth rate. Based on the data by the two firms Apple’s shipment growth rate again outpaced all the top five vendors. The PC growth rate was lowest in Japan at just 0.6%. To read the complete reports by both firms click on the link below
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