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gartner.com - 1/15/2009
Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC Industry Suffered Its Worst Shipment Growth Rate Since 2002
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STAMFORD, Conn., January 15, 2009 — In the fourth quarter of 2008, the worldwide PC industry suffered its worst growth rate since 2002 as worldwide shipments totalled 78.1 million units, a 1.1 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. ...
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Apple's U.S. Mac Shipments Grow In Q4 While PC Market Shrinks (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... The PC industry had a terrible fourth quarter: Worldwide shipments grew just 1.1% year-over-year, the worst Q4 growth rate since 2002, research firm Gartner said today. The U.S. was even worse: Q4 shipments dropped 10.1%. ...

People Afraid of Losing Their Jobs Buy Fewer PCs
Digital Daily — According to market-research outfits Gartner and IDC, PC shipment growth in the fourth quarter of 2008 was the worst since 2002. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker shows global PC shipments down 0.4 percent year over year. So much for that annual holiday season uptick. As expected, demand for PCs in the U.S. faced a challenging environment, with a substantial reduction in spending among both consumer and commercial segments amid tightening credit, eroding confidence, and growing unemployment. Not only unit growth was constrained, “but the value of the market also shrank as a result of competitive ...

Gartner: Q4 2008 is the Worst Shipment Growth For the PC Industry Since 2002
Ubergizmo — The Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Extravaganza is over and it is time to get back to reality. Today, Gartner is revealing the harsh truth about PC makers. According to preliminary results from the renown analysts firm, the worldwide shipments totaled 78.1 million units, a 1.1 per cent increase from Q4 2007 which is the worst growth rate since 2002. As we all know, the growth driver for the holiday season was the netbook segment, which outpaced the mobile PC category growth. This trend contributed to PC revenue record decline: ASP (average selling price) declined significantly and low-priced systems ...

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Despite everything, Mac sales grew year-to-year
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... In a holiday quarter in which the PC industry recorded dismal growth — its worst since 2002, according to Gartner Research — Apple (AAPL) sold more than 1.25 million Macintosh systems in the United States, up 8.3% from the same quarter last year. Domestic shipments of Dell (DELL) computers, by contrast, were down 16.4% and HP’s (HPQ) off by 3.4%, according to preliminary fourth quarter sales figures released Thursday by Gartner. (Click here for press release.) The news was mixed for Apple, however. Although sales were up ...

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Apple's U.S. PC Market Share Flat, Dell's Sinks
Silicon Alley Insider — ... to market research giant Gartner. (A year ago, it grew 12% year-over-year over Q1 '07.) The U.S. market fared better, with roughly flat shipments in Q1. Apple's Mac business leveled out after strong growth last year. U.S. Mac shipments were down 1% year-over-year, representing 7.4% of the market, according to Gartner. But that's a significant deceleration after the company grew U.S. shipments about 33% year-over-year during Q1 '08. (And grew U.S. shipments 8% year-over-year in Q4 '08, according to Gartner.) Meanwhile, Dell (DELL) sunk, as its shipments ...

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