Lenovo has once again claimed the number one spot in PCs shipped globally, with both IDC and Gartner listing the Chinese multinational as shipping around 16,000 desktops, notebooks, and workstations in the third quarter of 2018.

In IDC’s third-quarter PC rankings, Lenovo was reported as being accountable for 16,152 – 24% – of the total devices shipped in the three-month period, while Gartner reported Lenovo as shipping 15,889 units during the same period. In total, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker reported 67,387 individual desktops, notebooks, and workstations were shipped; similarly, Gartner had the total at 67,206.

Coming in second to Lenovo for both analyst firms was HP, with IDC’s 15,359 total and Gartner’s 14,629 figure giving the company an approximate 22% market share for the quarter. Dell claimed the third spot in both reports, with 11,466 and 10,737 units listed across both reports. IDC had Acer in fourth place, shipping 4,874 units, while Gartner gave Acer fifth spot, with just over 4,000 PCs shipped. Fourth for Gartner was Apple, with 4,928 devices. IDC placed Apple fifth, highlighting that sales had reduced from 5,387 devices in the third quarter of 2017 down to 4,762 for the current reported period.

The PC market continued to be driven by steady corporate PC demand, which was driven by Windows 10 PC hardware upgrades. Weakness in consumer PC demand continued, offsetting the strong sales in the business market.