2005 Worldwide PC Market

2005 was another record breaking year for PC sales.

In July 2004, the forecast was to see 1 Billion Windows PCs by 2010. It looks like we’ll see that number by May 2009.

By the end of 2005, there was approximately 650 million Windows PCs. 230 million PCs are expected to be sold in 2006. I’ll write more about this in another blog entry but the sales projection should look something like this.

Worldwide PC Sales Projection # Date Total Windows PCs Linux/Apple PCs 1. 2004 : July-04 600,000,000 540,000,000 60,000,000 2. 2005 : Jan-05 640,071,631 576,064,468 64,007,163 3. 2006 : Jan-06 728,422,307 655,580,076 72,842,231 4. 2007 : Jan-07 828,968,246 746,071,421 82,896,825 5. 2008 : Jan-08 943,392,790 849,053,511 94,339,279 6. 2009 : Jan-09 1,073,611,638 966,250,474 107,361,164 7. 2009 : May-09 1,120,896,285 1,008,806,657 112,089,629

Before I get carried away with the future, here are my estimated worldwide sales numbers by vendor for the past year. These numbers were derived from IDC reports.

2005 Worldwide PC Sales by Vendor # Vendor Units Sold % 1. Dell 37,754,066 18.1% 2. HP 32,539,416 15.6% 3. Lenovo-IBM 12,932,332 6.2% 4. Acer (mostly Europe) 9,803,542 4.7% 5. Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens 8,552,026 4.1% 6. Gateway 7,926,268 3.8% 7. Toshiba 7,509,096 3.6% 8. Apple 5,840,408 2.8% 9. Sony 4,588,892 2.2% 10. Alienware 4,171,720 2.0% 11. Other 76,968,234 36.9%   Total 208,586,000 100.0%

200 Million PCs

200 Million PCs were sold worldwide in 2005!

According to IDC, a market intelligence company, the actual number is 208.6 million.

200 million is an interesting number. It’s even more interesting when you consider a 15% per year growth rate. If we assume a steady 15% growth then in 12 years, in 2017, we will see 1 billion PCs sold in 1 year.

Here’s the breakdown.

# Year Units Sold 1. 2006 230,000,000 2. 2007 264,500,000 3. 2008 304,175,000 4. 2009 349,801,250 5. 2010 402,271,438 6. 2011 462,612,153 7. 2012 532,003,976 8. 2013 611,804,573 9. 2014 703,575,258 10. 2015 809,111,547 11. 2016 930,478,279 12. 2017 1,070,050,021

Behemoth Mobile PC

I’m a sucker for the behemoth mobile category.

The bigger the better. I figure it’s good exercise when traveling.

Dell showed a mobile concept that had a 20 inch screen yesterday.

The system is called the Dell XPS Mobile Concept PC.

It’s probably a 10 pounder.

I hope they build it. Gotta have one!