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As PC veterans HP and Dell slump, Apple, Lenovo are rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The old order for the PC industry appears to be ending as HP, the biggest computer maker globally, reported a 30% net profit slump this week. <\/p>\n

HP net profit dropped 30% for Q2 to April 30, amid flat growth in its PC division ‘Personal System Group’, at $9.4bn<\/p>\n

The PC maker earnings declined in two out of five of its business divisions including Imaging and Printing (-10%), and Enterprise division which slumped 3%. <\/p>\n

The world’s biggest PC maker showed disappointing 0% growth in its computer business – despite the release of a slew of new PCs and Laptops, both here in Australia and worldwide. <\/p>\n

PC sales are sluggish globally and grew just 1.9% in Q1 2012, according to Gartner, while the tablet market is growing at an astounding 124% annually, although this is from a low benchmark. Notebooks and mini-notes are growing 12%.<\/p>\n

This comes as HP continues to suffer in the face of intense competition from mobile tabs like the iPad and a slew of Androids hitting the market, which analysts re-confirmed this week. <\/p>\n

Hewlett Packard notebooks were down 3%, although revenue desktop PCs were up 5% compared to 2011.<\/p>\n

However, its Software division grew 22% in Q2- one of the only divisions that witnessed growth, along with Financial Services. <\/p>\n

In fact, HP software division is far more profitable than its hardware business, which prompted bosses at Palo Alto to controversially fork out $11 bn for UK software giant Autonomy last year. <\/p>\n

The company, under leadership of former CEO Leo Apotheker, even thought seriously of ditching its hardware division altogether, a gamble which later cost him his job and damaged HP’s repuation.<\/p>\n

Read: HP Slash 27,000 Jobs, Profits Dive<\/a><\/p>\n

Another US PC stalwart, Dell, also reported less than stellar performance on the PC front this week, announcing a 4% drop in revenue $14.4 bn, with its Consumer business revenues dropping 12% to $3 bn. <\/p>\n

And like HP it is looking to expand its proftiable enterprise division ‘Enterprise Solutions and Services’, which grew 2% year over year to $4.5 billion and is something it has pledged to invest in for future growth. <\/p>\n

Dell are focusing on more profitable enterprise services, which now account for 50 percent of our gross margin, confirmed Dell chief financial officer, Tuesday. <\/p>\n

PC maker Dell has also confirmed it is contunuing to reform its business to that of “an end-to-end IT provider,” with a major focus on profitable enterprise rather than consumer solutions. <\/p>\n

“We saw continued progress in our first quarter with the innovative IT solutions we’re providing – notably our latest Dell servers, storage, networking and services that deliver customers enhanced productivity,” said Brian Gladden, Dell CFO. <\/p>\n

“We continued to shift the mix of our business during a challenging environment.” <\/p>\n

This comes as new rivals like Apple are grabbing huge chunks of the PC market and are winning the mobile computing war -and has outran HP to the number one spot with 22.5% marketshare in Q1 this year, almost double that of HP’s 11.6% share. <\/p>\n

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Analysts NDP Display said Apple shipped almost 17.2 m ‘mobile PCs’ in first three months of 2012 – nearly 80% of which were iPads – compared to HP 8.9m units. <\/p>\n

However, in the notebook rankings, HP held on to the No.1 spot with 16.2% share, ahead of Acer, Lenovo and Dell. <\/p>\n

Read: Apple Swamps HP In Overall PC Market<\/a><\/p>\n

Rising Chinese player Lenovo also reported stellar performance results this week, on net income of US$473 m – up a whopping 70% year to year with “all-time highs” in revenue, and global market share up 12%. <\/p>\n

Lenovo now says it is #2 and the fastest growing major PC Co. for the 10th straight quarter.<\/p>\n

 According to NDP, it ranked in the top 5 for both notebook (No. 3) and tablet or mobile PC categories (No.4) with 10.6% and 7.7% share respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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