India PC market declined by 6.5 pc in 4th qtr of 2011

NEW DELHI: The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totaled nearly 2.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 6.5 per cent decline from corresponding quarter of previous year, research fi rm Gartner said. ‘The hard-disk drive (HDD) shortage due to the fl oods in Thailand signifi - cantly impacted the desktop market which declined 18 per cent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2011,’ principal research analyst at Gartner Vishal Tripathi said in a statement here. White boxes (including parallel import), which accounted for 45 per cent of the overall desktop market, registered a 32 per cent decline in last quarter of 2011 as compared to same period of 2010 Mr.Tripathi added. ‘Mobile PCs, with a 12 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2010, were able to stop a further decline of the PC market,’ Mr.Tripathi said. The Reserach fi rm said in the fourth quarter of 2011, Lenovo and Dell recorded 28 per cent and 11 per cent growth respectively, while HP declined 26 per cent compared to fourth quarter of 2010. ‘Multinational brands contributed more than half of the total PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 with shipments from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo, the top 4 vendors, representing 53.1 per cent of the market. Local vendor HCL accounted for 5.5 per cent of PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011, with 34 per cent year-on-year decline from