Males still tend to be the primary PC users (45 percent) of household PC systems purchased in the first quarter.
In a PC market that was down ten percent year-over-year, the Company grew its PC shipments across the region by an impressive five percent.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
The greatest percentage (14 percent) bought a PC for a home-based business, followed by educational purposes for adults (12 percent) and children (11 percent).
Although the overall industry was down eight percent across the region, Lenovo grew its PC shipments by 27 percent year-over-year, a stunning result.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
During the third quarter of this year, which ended Sept. 30, Logitech shipped 38 percent of the 410, 000 PC cameras in the U.S. market, followed by Intel, which shipped 29 percent of the total, IDC found.
Of the households surveyed, in 33 percent women were the primary PC user.
Lenovo's PC shipments in China grew eight percent year-over-year in the quarter, a significant result given that the overall China PC market was flat.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
During the second fiscal quarter, Lenovo's worldwide PC shipments grew 10.3 percent, in a difficult market that was down eight percent year-over-year, the 14th quarter in a row that the company has grown faster than the PC industry as a whole.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
One US research company (Alpha Wise) found that the tablet install base reduced PC usage by 37 percent in 2011.
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In terms of education, 25 percent of households had a college graduate as the primary PC user, with both college and high school graduates accounting for 24 percent each.
Gartner, on the other hand, still believes that PC shipments could rise 2 percent this year.
Worldwide PC sales fell by 14 percent during the first three months of the year, the steepest quarterly decline recorded since IDC began tracking the market in 1994.
Asus' PC shipments fell nearly 9 percent to 5.1 million units in the first quarter, admittedly a sharp decline, but far less than the industry's overall 12.7 percent fall.
In the U.S. the Samsung Chromebook has been at the top of Amazon's best-selling laptop list for 149 days since launch and in the U.K., Dixons says Chromebooks make up more than 10 percent of laptop sales in Currys and PC World stores.
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Global PC shipments dropped 8.6 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, according to market researcher IDC, which had anticipated just a 3.8 percent decline.
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According to our analysis, PC hardware now constitutes nearly 27% percent of its value, while services accounts for nearly 26% of its value.
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Market researcher Gartner Inc. released fourth-quarter PC shipment data today, showing that Dell was the biggest loser among the top 5 worldwide PC makers as its shipments fell 21 percent from the same quarter in 2011.
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Several new systems sporting this chip produced an average PC WorldBench 98 score of 235, roughly 10 percent faster than the fastest PII systems we've tested (which, at 450-MHz, scored 214).
During the second quarter, Lenovo grew its number-one position in China, the world's largest PC market, to a leading market share of 34 percent, up 2.4 points year-over-year.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
Reports Dell was talking with investors about taking the PC maker private surfaced Jan. 14, prompting a 22 percent surge in the shares.
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The Company's desktop PC shipments worldwide in the second quarter increased 8.8 percent year-over-year worldwide, compared to an overall industry decrease of nine percent worldwide.
ENGADGET: Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
Apple is a small player in the global PC market, ranking No. 6 with a 5.8 percent share of shipments in the third quarter of 2011, IHS says.
Outside of ASUS and Lenovo, whose price-focused strategies and key acquisitions kept them ahead of rivals, virtually every major vendor saw its PC shipments collapse versus a year ago, often by more than 10 percent.
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