Acer PC shipments to Western Europe snap 5-quarter falling move fast

Taiwan's Acer laptop battery Inc. Recorded year-on-year growth in the sphere of PC shipments to the Western European marketplace in the sphere of the fourth quarter of 2013, finish a five-quarter decline.

The loss-making processor vendor shipped 1.79 million units to the region in the sphere of the three months finish only remaining December, an raise of 2.4 percent from 1.75 million units in the sphere of the same era of 2012, Gartner Inc. Whispered in the sphere of its hottest paper give an account.

With its 12.2 percent share of the Western European marketplace, Acer laptop battery maintained third place behind U.S.-based Hewlett-Packard Co. With 22.1 percent and China's Lenovo faction Ltd. With 13.3 percent, the give an account whispered.

An alternative Taiwanese company, Asustek processor Inc., returned to the keep a record of top-five vendors, shipping 1.45 million PCs to Western Europe to take a marketplace share of 9.9 percent, level fourth yet to be of Apple Inc.'s 8.9 percent share.

Gartner estimated with the aim of PC shipments in the sphere of Western Europe totaled 14.7 million units in the sphere of the fourth quarter of 2013, an twelve-monthly decline of 4.4 percent.

Portable and desktop PC shipments to with the aim of marketplace dropped 6.5 percent and 0.3 percent, correspondingly. Shipments in the sphere of the region's authority PC marketplace declined 1.7 percent, while its consumer PC marketplace fell 7 percent in the sphere of the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the researcher.

"Shipments of traditional PCs (desktops and portable PCs) in the sphere of 2013 decreased 14 percent, but the rate of detachment decline was moderate across geographies -- which may well indicate with the aim of the shock of medicine cannibalizing PC sales in the sphere of mature markets is fading," whispered Meike Escherich, principal seek analyst by Gartner.

"Additionally, hefty records of authority PCs running on Windows XP remained in the sphere of apply, and the corporate marketplace has been increasing its PC replacement -- making up in lieu of a weak consumer PC marketplace," she declared in the sphere of the give an account.

Acer laptop battery shares had risen 3.36 percent to NT$18.45 (US$0.6) in the same way as of 11:45 a.M. Monday on the Taiwan have available swap over.