IDC: Q3 PC sales weren’t as awful as expected

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http://bgr.com/2013/10/09/pc-sales-q3-2013/PC sales are still shrinking but they aren't shrinking as quickly as previously feared. The latest numbers from IDC show that PC sales declined by 7.6% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2013, although this is actually an improvement from IDC's original projection of a 9.5% decline. The world's three biggest PC makers led the charge in the not-as-bad-as-expected quarter, as Lenovo, HP and Dell all posted modest year-over-year increases in sales in Q3 2013. But while sales from the PC industry's big three have stabilized, sales from smaller players Asus and Acer continued to plummet year-over-year by more than 34% each during the quarter. IDC's full press release follows below.

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