Titbit: 29.4 Million PCs Per Month for 2011

According to Gartner Research 352.8 million brand-name PCs were sold worldwide in 2011.

That works out to about 29.4 million per month or roughly 975,000 per day.

Microsoft have not released final figures yet for sales of Windows but estimates that I could find indicated that Microsoft sold 414 million copies of Windows 7 or about 1.13 million copies per day.

When you subtract the number of PCs from the number of Windows 7 sales you are left with a difference of 61.2 million. I am assuming that this is therefore the number of copies of Windows 7 that were sold unbundled to existing computer users who were upgrading from Windows XP or Windows Vista. If this is so it seems kind of low to me but as I say Microsoft have not released their official numbers for Windows sales yet (not that I could find on the Web anywhere anyway).

It will be interesting to see how PC and Windows sales go in 2012 because there are a number of industry experts who are saying that 2011 was the last year of the PC and that starting from 2012 the ‘mobile device’ will take over the crown of being the primary computing device.

Personally I don’t see this happening so quickly. I am not saying that mobile devices will not become people’s main computing platform at some stage in the future but I surely don’t see it happening in 2012. I don’t see businesses adopting mobile devices in business and I don’t see content creators—people who work with pictures and textual content—moving across to mobile devices in a hurry.

I have an Acer Iconia Android table ‘mobile device’ and I use it nearly every night to surf around a few sites on the Web and maybe do a final check on the statistics on my site but I have never used it to create content (i.e., edit pictures or key up a blog posting) and I don’t see myself using it for that purpose any time soon.

For those interested, using the Gartner numbers (which can be found on the Xbit site here), the Top 5 PC manufacturers in 2011 were:

• Hewlett Packard (HP) who shipped 60,554,726 PCs.
• IBM/Lenovo who shipped 45,703,863 PCs.
• Dell who shipped 42,864,759 PCs.
• Acer who shipped 39,415,381 PCs.
• ASUS who shipped 20,768,465 PCs.