Global notebook shipments (Wintel-based models) by the top-five brands and top-three ODMs suffered declines on month in January due to seasonality, according to Digitimes Research.

The first-tier brand vendors saw their combined shipments fall for the second straight month by 28% sequentially in January, although the volumes were up 11% compared to a year earlier thanks to the late arrival of the Lunar New Year holidays in February this year.

Hewlett-Packard (HP), the top vendor, suffered the highest sequential decline in January shipments. However, the vendor's January figures still remained on the growth track on a yearly basis. Lenovo also saw its January shipments expand 40% on year and narrowed its gap against HP.

Dell was less affected by the seasonality with its shipments dropping a mild 7% sequentially in January.

Combined shipments from the top-three ODMs were down 26% on month in January. Comal Electronics' January shipments were lower than expected due to sequential declines in demand from HP and Lenovo, while Quanta Computer and Wistron were performing better than the industry's average in the month, according to figures collected by Digitimes Research.