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17 Feb 2010
The UK PC market saw fourth quarter growth for the first time in a year, but business sales have dropped again, according to the latest figures from Gartner.
Acer held on to the top spot in the UK with 19.1 per cent market share, but had HP hot on its heels with 18.9 per cent. Dell was third with 16.5 per cent, followed by Toshiba and Samsung with 10.4 per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.
The total UK market [in terms of shipments] in Q4 was 3.8 million units.
Ranjit Atwal, principal analyst at Gartner, said: “The UK PC market showed
growth in Q4 for the first time this year. The PC market in the UK has also
become heavily dependent on mobile PCs as they accounted for 70 per cent of the
total PC market.
“The consumer mobile PC market continued to dominate the market with growth
reaching 24 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2009,” he added.
However, despite the overall growth, the professional PC market declined 25 per cent in Q4, Gartner said.
“It will be the last segment to recover,” Atwal added. “However, we should expect demand for Windows 7 to capitalise as its migrations start in 2010.”
On the whole, the Western European PC market also performed well, growing a total of four per cent to 20.2 million units in Q4. In 2009, total PC shipments reached 64.8 million units in Western Europe, representing flat unit growth from 2008.
Acer again headed the table in Western Europe with 23.1 per cent of the market. HP was second with 21.3 per cent, Dell was third with 9.9 per cent and Asus and Toshiba took fourth and fifth place with eight per cent and 6.2 per cent market share respectively.
Gartner said vendors such as Apple, Samsung, Lenovo and Sony all saw ‘significant growth’ and are putting ‘significant’ pressure on the top five vendors in Western Europe.
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