PC sales slide again, Lenovo takes top spot: survey

Worldwide sales of personal computers dropped for a fifth consecutive quarter in the April-June period, the longest decline in the PC market’s history, a research firm said Wednesday.

The survey by Gartner found China’s Lenovo edging past Hewlett-Packard as the world’s largest vendor, reclaiming the top spot it had captured briefly last year.

The preliminary figures showed a worldwide drop of 10.9 per cent in the second quarter compared with the same period a year ago, with PC shipments falling to 76 million units.

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