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| Canadian PC market hits all-time high |
July 1, 2007 |
2006 was a good year for PC sales in Canada. In Q4 2006, total PC shipments broke the 1.5-million unit mark for a single quarter on year-over-year growth of 13.3 per cent, according to IDC's Canadian Quarterly PC tracker. Overall shipments in 2006 rose 14.6 per cent to just less than 5.5 million units. These Q4 results mark the PC market’s fourteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.
“Mobility and the digital lifestyle continue to support the productivity agenda for businesses and to define the entertainment experience for consumers. In the era of Web 2.0 and the proliferation of digital content, [peer-to-peer sharing], and home and wireless broadband, consumers have led the way on portable PC adoption,” said Eddie Chan, research analyst for IDC's Canadian Mobile/ Personal Computing & Technology Programs.
“For 2007, the PC market is projected to grow 12.7 per cent on the strength of portables. The market transition from desktop to mobile, including notebooks and converged mobile devices, will accelerate as the convergent client computing and communications platforms race heats up.”
The Canadian desktop market grew 3.8 per cent in 2006; notebook shipments rose 37.6 per cent.
Dell landed 23.4 per cent share in Canada and first-place ranking for the sixth consecutive year. HP was in second place with 20.2 per cent and Acer displaced Lenovo for third place with 8.6 per cent share. Apple registered its second year of market-share gains. The consumer-oriented MacBook accounted for more than 70 per cent of total Mac shipments.
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