PC Shipments Drop 3.9% as Declines Slow Before Holiday Shopping
- Outlook ‘cautious’ for fourth quarter, researcher IDC Says
- Lenovo, HP, Dell among industry leaders during period
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Shipments of personal computers fell 3.9 percent in the third quarter, a narrower decline from earlier this year as the industry tries to free itself from a multiyear slump, market researcher IDC said.
PC makers shipped 68 million machines globally in the period, down from 70.7 million a year earlier, IDC said Tuesday in a statement. The report follows a worldwide decline of 4.1 percent in the second quarter. Unit sales in the U.S. rose 1.7 percent, a second consecutive quarterly gain.