Worldwide PC Sales Drop 1.7% in Third Quarter, IDC Says
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Worldwide personal-computer shipments fell 1.7 percent in the third quarter as weakness in emerging regions outweighed improved corporate demand, market researcher IDC said.
The decline was smaller than the 4.1 percent drop IDC had projected, the firm said yesterday in a statement. PC unit sales shrank to 78.5 million units from 79.9 million a year earlier, as smaller vendors lost out to the top three PC makers -- Lenovo Group Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., all of which posted higher shipments. Separately, researcher Gartner Inc. pegged the quarterly decline in unit sales at 0.5 percent.