Dell and Lenovo prosper amid strong Q3 2022 notebook PC demand

Dell XPS 17 9700 2022 Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central

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Strategy Analytics has a new report on how notebook PCs fared in Q3 2022.
Dell and Lenovo connected to have strong performance, equally did Apple, though Chromebooks didn't quite replicate the success of prior quarters' figures.
Overall, the notebook PC market was able to accomplish 8% year-over-twelvemonth (YoY) growth.

Global scrap shortages haven't stopped the PC sector from seeing record-breaking figures over the past few years. That trend continues as of Q3 2022, with the notebook PC market managing viii% YoY growth despite staggered supply chains and other obstacles.

The 8% figure comes courtesy of Strategy Analytics, which had many Q3 numbers and talking points to report on. It highlighted the performance of Dell, Lenovo, and Apple, while also giving insight on the Chromebook situation.

Strategy Analytics CCD Director Eric Smith had this to say almost Chromebook shipments' failure to grow at the rate of previous quarters: "Chromebook shipment year-over-year growth was downwardly to single digits after many quarters of stiff sales. The pedagogy demand slowed down in the United states as nigh schools reopened for in-person learning and other spending took priority over computer purchases. A few vendors already had orders cancelled or delayed until new upkeep becomes available for calculating devices again."

Q3 Figures Source: Strategy Analytics

In other large-picture takeaways from Q3, Lenovo managed to remain market leader for its fourth quarter in a row with a "record in Notebook PC shipments (sell-in) of 15.3 million units." That'south a five% YoY jump from the 14.5 million this same time last year.

Meanwhile, HP saw a 5% YoY dip with 14.3 million unit shipments. This is the showtime quarter HP suffered a decline since the pandemic kicked off.

And coming in 3rd, Dell pulled off 12.2 million unit shipments in Q3, gaining 5.i% market place share compared to last year.

On the non-Windows side of computing, Apple MacOS operations saw a x% leap in growth compared to Q3 2022 thanks to over 6.5 million MacBook shipments — a new quarterly record.

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