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Apple saw its domestic Mac shipments grow to 10.6 percent of themarket in the first quarter of 2012, as the company once again grewwhile the rest of the PC market saw its shipments slide. [Updatedwith additional data from IDC] Gartner Results Gartner on Wednesday announced its quarterly PC shipments,revealing that Apple maintained its place as the No. 3 PC seller inthe U.S. Apple's year-over-year shipments grew a slower-thanaverage 3.8 percent, but that was still enough to outpace the restof the market, which lost an average 3.5 percent. The market leader for the quarter was HP, which grew its shipmentsby 6.6 percent year over year. HP took a 29 percent share of theU.S. market on shipments of 4.5 million PCs. In second was Dell, which shipped 3.5 million PCs, good for 22.3percent of the market. Dell saw its shipments slide 3.6 percentfrom the same period in 2011. Apple remained in third place, as it was last quarter , but with a slightly smaller share of the market. At the end of2011, Apple took 11.6 percent of PC shipments in the U.S., but theMac maker was off by a percentage point to start 2012. Still, itgrew its share from the first quarter of 2011, when Applerepresented 9.8 percent of shipments. Apple shipped an estimated 1.6 million Macs in the first quarter of2012, according to Gartner, representing 3.8 percent growth fromthe same period in 2011. That put it ahead of fourth-place Acer,which shipped an estimated 1.4 million PCs over the three-monthspan, giving it a 9.1 percent share. Its shipments slid 25.9percent year over year. Apple, as usual, didn't crack the top five PC makers worldwide. Interms of global shipments, HP was the leader with an estimated 15.3million PCs shipped, taking a 17.2 percent share. Lenovo saw the greatest year-over-year gains, with its 28.1 percentsurge pushing it to second place on shipments of 11.6 million PCs,good for a 13.1 percent share. In third was dell, which slid 1.6percent to 9.8 million shipped PCs, giving it 11 percent. In fourth worldwide was Acer, which dropped 9.2 percent to 9.7million shipments. It took a 10.9 percent share. And finally infifth was Asus, which grew 21.3 percent and shipped 5.3 millionunits, for a market share of 6 percent. I am an expert from pre-painted-steel.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Pre-painted Aluminum , Color Coated Steel Coil, Color Coated Steel Coil,and more.
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