Gartner: PC shipments slip 1.7% to 76.6M units in Q1 2014, as end of Windows XP support boosts replacement sales

Apr09

by Sindy Cator on April 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm

Although the PC market continues to fall, having now seen its eighth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, according to Gartner, a 1.7 percent decrease from the same period last year. That’s still a drop, but a significantly smaller one: in Q1 2013, the PC shipment decline was a whopping 13.9 percent, followed by drops of 10.9 percent, 8.6 percent, and 6.9 percent for the remaining quarters of last year. Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Asus all…