NPD DisplaySearch reports global Q1 2012 mobile PC shipments reach 76.2m units with 30% Y-o-Y growth as tablets dominate the market and notebooks decline.
Tablets show 124% Y-o-Y growth, while notebooks and mini-notebooks grow by just 12%.
When it comes to vendors, Apple and HP remain on top-- Apple has 22.5% of the total WW mobile PC market with shipments reaching 17.2m units (80% of which being iPads). HP shipments total 8.9m units with 11.6% market share.
The following vendors (Acer, Lenovo, Dell) continue relying on notebooks to boost shipments.
Things are slightly different in the tablet market-- according to DisplaySearch Apple absolutely dominates with 62.8% market share. Following are Samsung (7.5%) and Amazon (4%), while RIM and Asus tablet shipments drop even further.
