US PC market has best quarter in a decade on pandemic demand

Shipments of Chromebooks, cheaper web-based laptops that run Google’s Chrome operating system, soared about 90% in the third quarter from a year earlier. — Pixabay

Personal computer shipments rose in the third quarter, with the US market having its best performance in a decade, on demand from consumers working and studying remotely.

PC makers shipped 3.6% more devices in the three-month period compared with a year earlier, for a total of 71.4 million units, according to preliminary data released on Oct 12 by researcher Gartner Inc.