The latest Canalys PC market forecast shows the market is on the road to recovery and expected to see sequential growth for the remainder of 2023 and stronger gains in 2024. SMB and enterprise PC shipments are expected to have a stronger second half of the year, growing 16% compared to H2 2022.
► SMB and enterprise to lead revival
► Higher demand for refurbs
‘After a tough first half to 2023, the PC market is now showing signs of recovery’, said Canalys Research Analyst Kieren Jessop. ‘The market has reached an inflection point; high inventory levels have mostly been digested and the decline in demand has stabilized over the past 18 months. The remainder of 2023 is poised for minimal, but consistent, sequential growth.
Canalys forecasts for the overall full-year 2023 Western Europe PC shipments will fall 13%, with tablets down 14%. The commercial market is forecast to outperform the consumer segment in 2023, falling only 9% year-on-year compared to 21%.
One area in which there are brighter prospects is in refurbished kit. More than two-thirds of partners across EMEA now offer ‘second-life’ devices and of those, two-thirds reported growing demand for refurbished products.
Looking at Q2 specifically, the research firm said that PC shipments (desktops, notebooks and workstations) in Western Europe fell 17% year-on-year to 10.5 million units. That was an improvement on the previous quarter when shipments were down 37%. Notebook shipments declined by 12% to 8.6 million units in Q2 2023; desktops were down 33% to 1.9 million units. Tablets shipments fell by 31% to 4.4 million.
