From CNET: The PC may be staging a comeback as interest in some tablet models slowly fades.
Global PC shipments posted a year-over-year decline of only minus 1.7 percent in the second quarter, to 74.4 million units from 75.7 million a year earlier, marking the smallest decline in global PC shipments since the second quarter of 2012, according to preliminary results from IDC.
The market researcher had projected a much larger decline. "Buoyed by both continued business PC replacements and returning consumer interest, the preliminary results for [the second quarter] are markedly better than the projected decline of [minus] 7.1 percent," IDC said in a statement.
The top five PC vendors grew a combined 9.8 percent year over year in the second quarter.
In the US, Hewlett-Packard and Dell grew faster than the market, IDC said. "Moving forward, strong sales in the back-to-school season and healthy consumer sales in the holiday season should keep the US PC market in positive territory for the rest of the year," IDC said.
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