Australian PC shipments are predicted to be up nine percent for the 2014 calendar year, despite ongoing concern over global shipments in years ahead.
Local growth is predicted to outstrip that of mature global markets in 2014, predicts IDC, with both desktop and “portable PC” shipments expected to increase in Australia.
Desktop shipments in Australia are predicted to increase by four percent and portable PCs by 12 percent for the year.
While IDC did not predict yearly rankings for the vendors, it did reveal that HP remained in first place for the third quarter with 23 percent share of shipments.
In second place was Apple with 14 percent of shipments. Dell was in third place with 13 percent, Acer Group next with 11 percent, while Lenovo also accounted for 11 percent of shipments. Other unnamed vendors made up 27 percent of the market.
Despite the growth, the global forecast isn’t rosy. IDC recently predicted that PC shipments in mature markets will decline in 2015 and contract “slightly” to 2018.
In that forecast, IDC theorised that competition from tablets was waning, but competition from small “phablets” and smartphones was increasing.
Australia has already seen a downturn in tablet shipments this year, according to IDC. Shipments in the third quarter were down by 26 percent compared to the same period a year before.
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