Apple MacBook sales continue to grow, PC sales down

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New research claims that global PC shipments were down 4.3% in Q1 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, but MacBook sales were up by 8%.




This latest finding from Counterpoint Research does not break out any difference between the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Similar previous reports about Apple sales being up, however, only covered the Mac.

"[However,] Apple continued its success with the M1 MacBook series to see 8% YoY shipment growth in Q1 2022," says Counterpoint Research in a press release, "which boosted its market share by 100 bps [Basis Points] YoY."

In total, global shipments of all PCs, including Macs, were down 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022, meaning 78.7 million units were shipped. Lenovo remained the top seller with a 23.1% share, selling 18.2 million PCs, down 9.5% YoY.

Source: Counterpoint Research
Source: Counterpoint Research


HP saw a 16% YoY decline to a 20.2% share, or 15.9 million PCs sold. Dell saw a small increase in its sales to 13.8 million devices, compared to 13.6 in Q1 2021.

Counterpoint Research says that HP was hit by a weakening demand for Chromebooks, which also saw Acer's shipments decline by 1%.

However, the research firm also attributes to overall drop in sales to component shortages and demand uncertainties caused by the coronavirus. And it says that its research is showing that the gap between demand and supply is narrowing, "signalling an approaching end to supply tightness."

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  • Reply 1 of 12
    ravnorodomravnorodom Posts: 735member
    PC sucks. I bought my son Dell game laptop for his engineering major in his college. Wifi and bluetooth went busted after 1.5 years. I had to work around it with wifi/bluetooth USB dongles which took up half of USB ports. This is his second Dell and first one had the same issue. My MacBook Pro lasts forever. Never had any issue like this craps.
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  • Reply 2 of 12
    Japheyjaphey Posts: 1,773member
    PC sucks. I bought my son Dell game laptop for his engineering major in his college. Wifi and bluetooth went busted after 1.5 years. I had to work around it with wifi/bluetooth USB dongles which took up half of USB ports. This is his second Dell and first one had the same issue. My MacBook Pro lasts forever. Never had any issue like this craps.
    Yeah, 1.5 years sounds about right. I have family members that have to replace their pc’s at least every other year. Some more often than that. Meanwhile, my last MacBook still ran like a champ after 8 years before being retired for an M1 model.
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  • Reply 3 of 12
    muthuk_vanalingammuthuk_vanalingam Posts: 1,431member
    Japhey said:
    Yeah, 1.5 years sounds about right. I have family members that have to replace their pc’s at least every other year. Some more often than that. Meanwhile, my last MacBook still ran like a champ after 8 years before being retired for an M1 model.
    Wow, replacing PCs/Laptops just after 1.5 years. Unbelievable!!!

    A windows PC that I assembled about 15 years ago (Intel Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 1TB hard disk) was retired about 6 years ago because it became too slow to run windows 7. We packed it and kept it in a box in a corner of the house (did not throw it away luckily). And we needed an additional PC for my son to attend online classes due to COVID lockdowns. We did not want to spend too much money buying a new PC/laptop/tablet, so we decided to bring the old PC back to life and replaced the hard disk with SATA SSD (not the faster M.2 one because the old motherboard does not support it). And guess what? It is able to run windows 7 absolutely fine without any issues. And it was used for 1 year until the school reopened and classes were conducted in offline mode. And my 6 year old windows PC (i3 4th generation, 4GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is also working without any issues, running windows 10. My experience is at the extreme end of other side, when compared to you guys. I must be doing something wrong, to be able to use a 15 year old PC while you guys needed to replace the PCs within 1.5 years. 
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  • Reply 4 of 12
    danvmdanvm Posts: 1,484member
    muthuk_vanalingam said:
    Wow, replacing PCs/Laptops just after 1.5 years. Unbelievable!!!

    A windows PC that I assembled about 15 years ago (Intel Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 1TB hard disk) was retired about 6 years ago because it became too slow to run windows 7. We packed it and kept it in a box in a corner of the house (did not throw it away luckily). And we needed an additional PC for my son to attend online classes due to COVID lockdowns. We did not want to spend too much money buying a new PC/laptop/tablet, so we decided to bring the old PC back to life and replaced the hard disk with SATA SSD (not the faster M.2 one because the old motherboard does not support it). And guess what? It is able to run windows 7 absolutely fine without any issues. And it was used for 1 year until the school reopened and classes were conducted in offline mode. And my 6 year old windows PC (i3 4th generation, 4GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is also working without any issues, running windows 10. My experience is at the extreme end of other side, when compared to you guys. I must be doing something wrong, to be able to use a 15 year old PC while you guys needed to replace the PCs within 1.5 years. 
    My customers have the same experience with PC's.  Some of their devices have 6-8 years, and they are working without issues.  Some of them became slow, but the issue was fixed with a SSD upgrade. 
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  • Reply 5 of 12
    thttht Posts: 5,899member
    Some basic math, 7.1m units x $1250 ASP = $8.88b in Mac revenue for calendar Q1. Lets see how close Counterpoint gets here.
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  • Reply 6 of 12
    waveparticlewaveparticle Posts: 1,497member
    muthuk_vanalingam said:
    Wow, replacing PCs/Laptops just after 1.5 years. Unbelievable!!!

    A windows PC that I assembled about 15 years ago (Intel Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 1TB hard disk) was retired about 6 years ago because it became too slow to run windows 7. We packed it and kept it in a box in a corner of the house (did not throw it away luckily). And we needed an additional PC for my son to attend online classes due to COVID lockdowns. We did not want to spend too much money buying a new PC/laptop/tablet, so we decided to bring the old PC back to life and replaced the hard disk with SATA SSD (not the faster M.2 one because the old motherboard does not support it). And guess what? It is able to run windows 7 absolutely fine without any issues. And it was used for 1 year until the school reopened and classes were conducted in offline mode. And my 6 year old windows PC (i3 4th generation, 4GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is also working without any issues, running windows 10. My experience is at the extreme end of other side, when compared to you guys. I must be doing something wrong, to be able to use a 15 year old PC while you guys needed to replace the PCs within 1.5 years. 
    Like Android phones, Windows PCs sell at vast price range. You probably paid high prices to become so lucky.
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  • Reply 7 of 12
    thttht Posts: 5,899member
    Apple reported $10.44b in Mac revenue.

    So, the magic is going to be all in what the ASP is for getting to number of units sold. For 7.1m units, you need an ASP of $1470. Maybe that makes sense if there was a big uptick in MBP14/16 units. A doubling of MBP models?

    Mac ASP hovers around $1250 to $1350. If it is $1300, Apple sold 8m units. So, the number of units is probably higher than 7.1m imo. 7.5m?
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  • Reply 8 of 12
    KTRktr Posts: 280member
    Japhey said:
    Yeah, 1.5 years sounds about right. I have family members that have to replace their pc’s at least every other year. Some more often than that. Meanwhile, my last MacBook still ran like a champ after 8 years before being retired for an M1 model.
    I am still suing my mid 2012 First Gen Retina 15in MacBook pro 15in
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  • Reply 9 of 12
    muthuk_vanalingammuthuk_vanalingam Posts: 1,431member
    waveparticle said:
    Like Android phones, Windows PCs sell at vast price range. You probably paid high prices to become so lucky.
    If this is your conclusion, either you didn't read my post carefully or you are completely clueless about what you are talking. My 6 year old PC has Intel i3 4th generation processor as I mentioned in my earlier post. There is nothing expensive about it.
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  • Reply 10 of 12
    Japheyjaphey Posts: 1,773member
    If this is your conclusion, either you didn't read my post carefully or you are completely clueless about what you are talking. My 6 year old PC has Intel i3 4th generation processor as I mentioned in my earlier post. There is nothing expensive about it.
    Based on his previous posts, It’s probably the latter, lol. It sounds like you’ve been pretty lucky with your PC experience. I really don’t know what my family members are doing to their laptops. Maybe going places online that they shouldn’t? It’s a mystery to me. All I know is that they all used to come to me to fix their PC’s and to ask for my recommendations (Apple, of course!). Then they would promptly ignore anything I said, so I politely removed myself as the family tech guru. They still give me their broken laptops for some reason, and right now I’m looking at a stack of 6 of them, all less than 4 years old. Since going Mac exclusive in 2005, most of my PC and Windows repair chops have gradually faded away, so they’ll probably sit in that corner until I get around to recycling them. And the fact that I can’t even give them away to someone for free while 5 year old MacBooks still command hundreds of dollars in resale, tells me everything I need to know about the quality and value of the PC. Anyway, sorry for rambling on. 
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  • Reply 11 of 12
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member
    Okay, let’s get real. Individual anecdotal experiences have nothing to do with the overall reliability of hardware brands. It’s all just bias confirmation and justification.
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  • Reply 12 of 12
    waveparticlewaveparticle Posts: 1,497member
    muthuk_vanalingam said:
    If this is your conclusion, either you didn't read my post carefully or you are completely clueless about what you are talking. My 6 year old PC has Intel i3 4th generation processor as I mentioned in my earlier post. There is nothing expensive about it.
    I have read PC people seeking advice about what brand to buy. Apparently many PCs have problems. The PC people think this is normal. LOL
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