Not so long ago, computers were almost always in a business location – an accountant’s office, or something like that. But gradually, partly thanks to Apple iMac, the machines started making their way into homes in large numbers.
But there are still categories of computers which don’t really belong in the home, or at least weren’t designed for domestic bliss. If you can comfortably fit a supercomputer or a mainframe into your house, that’s probably enough domestic bliss for you anyway.
For most of us, desktop computers – or increasingly laptop computers – are just about all the space we can share, and the largest manufacturers of such poor-man’s systems were recently listed by Gartner.
Worldwide computer shipments in second quarter of 2016
- Lenovo – 13.2 million units
- HP – 12.3 million units
- Dell – 10 million units
- Asus – 4.7 million units
- Apple – 4.6 million units
- Acer – 4.4 million units
- Others – 15.4 million units
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Source: Gartner
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