Gartner has released its estimates of worldwide PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011, and Chinese maker Lenovo (HKG:0992) posted the best growth among the top vendors, with 23 percent more shipments in the quarter.
With 14 percent market share, Lenovo still ranks second in global PC shipments just behind market leader HP (NYSE:HPQ), having leapfrogged Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) earlier in the year. HP retains a 16 percent market share despite a 16 percent shipment decline on the previous year. The afore-mentioned Dell sits behind in the third spot with 12.6 percent market share. We don’t hear too many headlines from Dell these days, but the company put up an impressive 30 percent growth in Asia according to the report.
Taiwanese vendors Acer (TPE:2353) and Asus (TPE:2357) rounded out the top five with 10.7 and 6.8 percent market share respectively. Although in terms of growth, the companies went in opposite directions with Asus’s shipments growing by over 20 percent, and Acer’s declining by 18.4.
Globally, PC shipments were down by 1.4 percent, but here in Asia there was an 8.5 percent increase on the same period last year.
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