Amazon climbed to third place on the back of strong holiday season demand, shipping 6.5 million tablets. Samsung maintained second place in the market with 9.9 million tablets shipped, up 41% from Q4 2019. And yet again Chromebooks set record shipment volumes, reaching 11.2 million units in Q4 2020, a remarkable 287% increase over Q4 2019, bringing the full-year 2020 total to 30.6 million units.Īpple furthered its dominance in the tablet market, with Q4 shipments growing 40% to 19.2 million, its best iPad performance since Q4 2014. The holiday quarter brought continued strength to tablets, with shipments hitting an all-time high of 52.8 million units, for a 2020 total of 160.6 million units and 28% growth over 2019. HP, Dell and Samsung made up the rest of the top 5, with each posting double digit shipment growth in Q4 2020.
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On the back of a stellar performance in iPads, second-placed Apple managed to close the gap with Lenovo and shipped 26.4 million Macs and iPads in Q4, a total of 81.4 million units for the full year. Lenovo led the market in Q4 and for the full year, with shipments of 28.8 million and 87.0 million units respectively. As a result, total shipments for 2020 grew 17% to reach 458.2 million units, the highest volume since 2015. The Global PC market (including tablets) ended 2020 on a high, posting a third consecutive quarter of annual growth as shipments hit 143.7 million units in Q4, up 35% year-on-year.
Canalys: Tablets and Chromebooks set all-time high shipment records in Q4 2020