Report: Desktop PC market shows signs of stabilization
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After four years of decline, the desktop PC market is starting to stabilize, according to analyst firm IDC. While 2016 started out slowly for the industry, things started to move in the second half of the year. A total of 70.2 million desktop computers shipped in the Q4 2016, a year-on-year decline of just 1.5%. Total annual sales reached 260 million, a decline of 5.7% compared to 2015.
Lenovo was the best-performing of the big players in the market and grew 1.7%, though IDC notes that HP wasn't far behind and increased its shipments by 6.6%. Dell Technologies sat in ...