Posted on 02/16/2016 4:32:49 PM PST by Swordmaker
Global notebook shipments dropped significantly in 2015 mainly due to the impact of currency depreciation on the demand in Europe and the emerging markets, such as Latin America. The release of Windows 10 in the third quarter and Skylake CPU in the fourth also influenced consumers' decision making and delayed notebook purchases. According to the global market research firm TrendForce, worldwide notebook shipments for 2015 totaled 164.4 million units, representing a year-on-year decline of 6.3%.
The strong U.S. demand drove HP's notebook shipments from the beginning of last year's second quarter. Though HP's shipments for 2015 were smaller in volume compared with its 2014 shipments, the brand kept its No. 1 ranking with a 20.5% market share worldwide.
Lenovo's 2015 notebook shipments grew 6.9% annually and followed closely behind HP with a market share of 19.9% (these figures exclude shipments from brands acquired by Lenovo). Despite the demand in Europe being generally weak, Lenovo continued to develop its sales channels there. By expanding its market share in Europe, the Chinese brand was thus able to increase its overall notebook shipments against headwinds.
Dell retained third place in the 2015 ranking on account of the robust sales of its Chromebook in North America. The brand saw its notebook shipments grew 4.3% annually and took 13.7% of the global market.
Apple overtook ASUS and Acer to become the No. 4 brand in the annual ranking. New MacBook models and strong demand in the U.S. drove Apple's notebook shipments, bringing its global market share to 10.34%.
ASUS focused its sales efforts on notebook during last year's final quarter, resulting in a massive quarterly shipment growth of over 70%. Nonetheless, the Taiwanese brand's annual result was still below Apple's. ASUS accounted for 10.31% of the global market by the end of 2015 and fell to the fifth place in the ranking.
Acer's notebook business faced challenges in different regions during 2015. The Taiwanese brand lost market share to Lenovo in Europe, and its Chromebook sales in the U.S. were impacted by tough competition from HP and Dell. Consequently, Acer's 2015 notebook shipments fell considerably by 16.6% from the prior year. The company retreated to No. 6 in the annual ranking, representing just 8.9% of the global market.
Source: Trendforce, February 2016
MacBook Pro’s are awesome. My 2011 version still runs like new and blows away most of what’s current today.
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I am using one right now. I bought it in 2011 as well and never a problem. No virus’. Nothing. It is great. Such a relief after suffering so many years with Sony and others.
If they ultimately choose a MacBook Pro, they're hardly going to be the only people who decided to purchase the Apple product just to wipe OSX from it entirely to load Microsoft Windows 10 on it.
Of course, you'd be sort of nuts to make a MacBook Pro Retina into a Windows-only machine, but some people do. Some PC users out there did their research and learned that if they were about to spend $2500 on a laptop they'd be doing the wrong thing to buy an HP/Dell/ThinkPad instead of a MacBook Pro.
I could never get my mid-2011 MBP to have reliable wifi under Yosemite. I finally gave up and bought a mid-2014 MBP that is fantastic.
When you make a phenomenal product, that’s what happens.
We’ve been rocking a late 2013 retina mbp with 1tb ssd. The hardware is fantastic, especially the touchpad!! There was nothing close at the time.
We prefer Windows, but I would never wipe osx, so we bootcamp into win8.1 instead. It’s the best solution, offering osx as a backup.
Going to continue to grow share, IMHO. Macs seem most popular with college kids here, has been for some time, and eventually those kids grow up and join the workforce.
Also, the interoperability of Macs and Windows are so good now, there’s little reason for lock-in to one platform. And you can always run the odd Windows-only program in a VM.
on cost. Macs still have a ways to go, but for many that’s not an issue.
With Windows 10 being near spyware, I'm pretty ready to drop 20 years of MS use. I even called my first business "Windows of a Opportunity". Now it's "Open Windows - we can know all about you."
MacBook Pro's up through 2012 are fantastic. Apple is still selling the 2012 version; just bought my wife one to replace her 2006 MacBook so she could access new features of OSX. Newer models don't have the ports that the older models have. Insert an SSD instead of a mechanical HD and enjoy.
People shopping at the *top end* for a portable W10 platform seem to be going toward the convertible tablets over traditional laptops.
The SurfaceBook and Yoga are both good options, but they still don’t hold up in value and options to a high end laptop. Not just yet. Also, there’s really only two viable options with a sketchbook, the one I just mentioned.
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