February 1, according to market research firm Canalys statistics, laptop screen if included in the Tablet PC shipments, Apple with iPad hot holiday at the end of last year, has gone beyond the fourth quarter Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer (PC ) manufacturers.
Canalys statistics, in the fourth quarter of last year, Apple sold a total of 15 million and 500 million units iPad Macintosh computer (Mac), accounting for the same period nearly 120 million units worldwide PC shipments by 17%. HP comes second with a market share dropped to 12.7% laptop keyboard.
Canalys to desktop computers, laptops, netbooks and tablet the same category, the different algorithms and peers. Gartner and IDC defines as the PC does not include tablet PCs, desktop and laptop only.
According to Canalys, the PC market shipments in the fourth quarter of last year, up 16%; Excluding tablet, PC market shrank 0.4%. Including the iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire, and Barnes & Noble bookstore (Barnes & Nobles)'s Nook, including the fourth quarter tablet PC shipments accounted for 22% Compaq V3000 fan.
Canalys CEO Bu Leise (Steve Brazier), said: "We are experienced PC industry, the biggest change in 20 years when all the growth from the iPad, the traditional PC market has grown difficult for example, spring up quickly in previous years the Internet, has now been defeated iPad play. This is HP's in front of big trouble. "
The world's top five PC makers, only think of the fourth quarter market share increase, the annual increase of 2 percentage points; contrast, Apple Compaq V4000 fan greatly increased 6 percentage points. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer market share are declining.
Part of the PC business to Ultrabook as a new growth point, which Canalys forecasts, Ultrabook the first half of this year's results may be flat, in the second half as prices fall, Intel introduced a new series of processors, as well as aggressively marketing strategy, market demand will begin to heat.
Canalys also announced sales of smartphones in the fourth quarter, the same, driven by hot during the holidays, the previous quarter, Apple sold 37 million total Compaq V6000 fan iPhone, rewritten smartphone sales in a single season record.