Despite an overall drop in shipments amid the global coronavirus pandemic, Lenovo remained the world’s biggest personal computer (PC) seller in the first quarter of 2020.

In the three months through March, the Chinese company shipped 12.8 million PCs, giving it a global market share of 24.1%, 1.4 percentage points higher than the same period for 2019, according to statistics released Monday by research firm IDC. The figure included desktops, notebooks and workstations.

However, in absolute terms Lenovo’s quarterly shipments fell 4.3% year-on-year, despite the fact that office workers needed to upgrade PCs to telework from home and PC based gaming also experienced a rise during the outbreak, IDC said.

HP, Dell, Acer and Apple followed Lenovo with global market shares of 22%, 19.7%, 6.3% and 5.8%, respectively. Apple was hardest hit in the first quarter with a dramatic decline of 20.7% in shipments of its Mac computers, the statistics showed.

Overall, the global PC vendors shipped 53.2 million units in the first quarter, down 9.8% from a year ago, according to IDC.

Contact reporter Ding Yi (yiding@caixin.com)

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