Dell India, number two in PC shipments after Hewlett Packard (HP) in the fourth

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quarter of 2010, has regained top position in India with 16.7 per cent out of total 2.6 million units of overall PC (desktops, netbooks, laptops) shipments in the first quarter of 2011.

According to information technology (IT) research and advisory firm Gartner, the combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled around 2.6 million units in the first quarter of 2011, a 6.2 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2010.

Growth was primarily driven by the mobile PC market that grew 23 per cent in the first quarter of 2011 and all the major multinational vendors experienced double-digit growth in mobile PC shipments during this period. However, as compared to the previous quarter (fourth quarter of 2010), shipments of PCs in first quarter of 2011 were down by 3.70 per cent. Shipments in the fourth quarter 2010 were 2.7 million units.

“There was a slump in consumer demand in the first quarter, so the market did not grow as expected. However, enterprise and small and midsize business (SMB) buying helped the market to achieve growth in the quarter. Government buying also contributed, as it was the last quarter of the financial year,” principal research analyst, Gartner, Vishal Tripathi said.

He said multinational brands contributed more than half of the total PC shipments in the first quarter of 2011 with shipments from Dell, HP, Acer and Lenovo, the top four vendors, representing 50.4 per cent of total shipments. Local vendor HCL accounted for 7.1 per cent of shipments in the first quarter of 2011.