Friday, January 15th 2021
Shipped Pre-built PC Systems See 13% Rise in Sales in 2020 Compared to 2019
The International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed PC shipping growth numbers for 2020 - counting desktops, notebooks (including Chromebooks) and workstations (but excluding laptops and servers), and the results are clear. In a currently-pandemic world, and with the urge and necessity for teleworking efforts so as to reduce personal exposure to risk environments, we've seen an unprecedented demand for technological components. Whether in shortages for the latest "comfort" technologies such as dedicated graphics cards, latest-gen consoles, or even webcams, it's been clear that citizens of the world have been increasingly investing their money in technological devices. This need - either for work, for bridging social distances through the Internet, or for entertainment - has led the pre-built PC ecosystem shipments to increase as much as 13% in 2020 - and a global shipment number set at 302.6 million units.
This year-over-year (YoY) increase is bolstered, mainly, by rises in sales throughout Q4 of 2020, where global PC shipments achieved an outstanding 26% increase from Q4 2019 - in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, 91.6 million units were shipped. In that particular quarter, Lenovo led the top three vendors with a 25.2% share of the sales, followed by HP (20.9%) and Dell (17.2%). Apple appears in fourth place with a mere 8% market share, but shows the strongest growth among the top 5 sellers, at 49.2% YoY - and that's with Apple's comparatively small product portfolio when put against any of the other top three vendors.
According to IDC, the PC market last saw growth of this magnitude way back in 2010, when the market grew 13.7%. Between those golden days and now, the PC market witnessed six years of PC sales decline, as well as a year of flat growth. Ryan Reith, program VP with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers, had this to say regarding the growth: "Demand is pushing the PC market forward and all signs indicate this surge still has a way to go. The obvious drivers for last year's growth centered around work from home and remote learning needs, but the strength of the consumer market should not be overlooked. We continue to see gaming PCs and monitor sales at all-time highs and Chrome-based devices are expanding beyond education into the consumer market. In retrospect, the pandemic not only fueled PC market demand but also created opportunities that resulted in a market expansion."
Source:
Businesswire
This year-over-year (YoY) increase is bolstered, mainly, by rises in sales throughout Q4 of 2020, where global PC shipments achieved an outstanding 26% increase from Q4 2019 - in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, 91.6 million units were shipped. In that particular quarter, Lenovo led the top three vendors with a 25.2% share of the sales, followed by HP (20.9%) and Dell (17.2%). Apple appears in fourth place with a mere 8% market share, but shows the strongest growth among the top 5 sellers, at 49.2% YoY - and that's with Apple's comparatively small product portfolio when put against any of the other top three vendors.
19 Comments on Shipped Pre-built PC Systems See 13% Rise in Sales in 2020 Compared to 2019
HP OMEN currently has a 3080 equipped system for a reasonable price.
Add more SSD storage and max out the RAM and you end up with a great system, a great value and great options you wouldn't have had otherwise.
The point of contention by most is that you can't easily upgrade motherboards or that you get a cheap PSU (enough to run the system).
I bought my AREA 51 because I liked the case design. If I don't see a case design I like down the road, I'll probably end up building into the same old boring rectangular case only I won't spend a dime extra in RGB since I consider RGB fans a WASTE OF MONEY.
It doesn't surprise me pre-builts are on the rise in sales and it's most likely because of the simple fact you are very hard pressed to find a GPU all alone on the shelf out in the wild....they are elusive creatures and shy away from public eyes.
The amount of WFH people will undaubtely increase significantly as company execs have determined that the WFH mandate has worked out much better than ever anticipated. Besides WFH employees now shouldering a bevy expenses previously borne by the company. (IT services, Internet access, utilities, parking, general office equipment use, telephone, office amenities, supplies, furniture, etc)
The latest rumour from a friendly insider (a spy with access) which he immediately 'texted' to all the cubicle people, indicated that about 60% would not be returning to work and will be reclassified as casual employees with much reduced medical benefits, etc. Or none at all based on their new casual status. Thus Human Capital is also hard at work to rewrite job-descriptions.
But the compay will provide so-called "Landing Zones" for all that have lost the security of their 4x4 cubicle should they be summoned to visit HQ. So most definitely even more pre-builds will be needed! Now of course I wonder where I will land-up?
They went from "the PC is dying" to "record PC sales" in what? 3 months?
And the shame of it is: REMOTE LEARNING DOESN'T WORK.
Far more prebuilts will sell with 3060's than 3080's, and far more than that will sell without discrete graphics at all.
If you need a PC now, a pre-built is the easiest way.
Then there is the hotly contested matter of overcloking. 99% of most people don't even know what overclocking is, whereas the average person buys their computer from Costco, Office Depot, Best Buy or order a slightly customized and propiatary system from Dell or HP. Overclocking also involves "benchmarking" which seems to be exercised by less than 1% of the people as well. What can I say but the 1% number out there seems to be ubiquitous. To be sure I am not a PC enthusiast by a long-shot and just "trolling" along the tech-walk and talk. Now that I gotten this of my chest I feel much better.