Dell led the way in the third quarter with 4.7 million systems shipped in the US followed by HP at 4.1 million and Apple at three million. Among the top five vendors by volume, only Apple and Acer experienced positive annual growth. HP saw sales slide more than 23 percent year over year and Lenovo’s US shipments were down 22.2 percent.
Factoring tablets into the equation puts Apple in first place by a sizable margin. Cupertino shipped four million iPads in Q3, followed by Amazon in second place with 2.7 million Fire tablets shipped. Third place went to Samsung with 1.6 million units shipped during the same period.
