The latest research from Omdia reveals that total shipments of desktops, notebooks and workstations grew 6.8% to 72 million units in Q3 2025. Apple’s Mac posted 4.3% YoY growth in the quarter, surpassing the 6-million unit shipment mark for the fifth consecutive quarter.
Notebook (including mobile workstation) shipments rose 4% to 57.2 million units, while desktop (including desktop workstation) shipments grew 17% to 15.2 million units. With the Windows 10 end-of-support deadline less than a week away, refresh demand across all end-user segments continues to be the dominant factor driving shipment and activation growth.
Lenovo enjoyed a strong quarter to extend its unit share lead in the global PC market in Q3 2025, posting 17% growth and shipments totaling 19.4 million units. HP ranked second, shipping 15.0 million units, marking an 11% year-on-year increase while Dell secured third place with 3% annual growth, supported by ongoing refresh momentum. Fourth-placed Apple posted mid-single-digit growth. Asus rounded out the top five vendor rankings with 5.8 million units shipped, a 7% increase from a year ago.
MacDailyNews Take: Here’s the breakdown of desktop and notebook shipments between Q122 and Q325, according to Omdia:
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
We’re getting very VERY close to the 10% market share metric that apple haters said was totally and completely impossible to achieve 25 years ago.
Wake me when the share percentage rises above 15%