Both IDC and Gartner have published their estimates of personal computer sales in the third quarter, which reveals "remarkable" growth for such a mature industry. Dell was top of the pile again. IDG News reports:
IDC figures show Dell with global shipments of nearly 9.5 million for the quarter, and with US shipments of 5.6 million. In percentage terms, those figures gave Dell 18% market share globally and 33% in the US, both of which were up slightly over the same period of last year. Year-on-year, Dell had 17.8% growth internationally and 12.2% growth in the US.
Dell is still selling more PCs per quarter than Apple is selling iPods, or Sony is selling PSPs, or Nintendo is selling DS handhelds. That's particularly impressive when you consider most Dell PCs are built locally, with benefits in jobs and taxes, rather than knocked out in China or Taiwan.
Again, Acer of Taiwan is continuing its spectacular growth:
Internationally, Acer Inc was fourth in shipments with nearly 2.5 million for a 4.7% market share, up 53.7% year-on-year, according to IDC, and had 2.4 million shipments and 4.4% of the market by Gartner's reckoning.
