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Market researchers: HP overtakes Dell on the worldwide computer market
According to figures from the market researcher iSuppli, 268 million computers were delivered worldwide last year. 49.5 million of them came from Hewlett-Packard, which – after six quarters at the top of the rankings – has thus also taken over from Dell as the market leader in the year as a whole. The market researchers analyse their provisional figures as indicating that HP has shown a strong presence in the marketing channels and has put its money on notebooks.


Dell supplied 39.7 million PCs, 1.7 per cent more than in 2006, while HP was able to show growth of almost 30 per cent. As in the previous year, Acer was in third place, with 24 million devices delivered and, with 33 per cent, showed the greatest growth over 2006. It was followed by Lenovo and Toshiba.

The statistics for the fourth quarter on its own show the firms in the same order. In contrast to the table for the year, the figures for Apple, number six on the list, are also given here. It has held this place since the third quarter of 2007. The figures indicate that Apple contributed almost 2.2 million to the total of 76 million devices delivered worldwide in the closing quarter, thus taking a 2.9 per-cent market share. With 39.3 per cent, Apple showed the greatest growth. The market researchers say this is explained by Apple's changeover to Intel processors.

Computers delivered worldwide in 4th quarter of 2007 (in 1000s)

Ranking Company Deliveries
Q4 2007 Deliveries
Q4 2006 Market share
Q4 2007 Growth over previous year
1 Hewlett-Packard 14.567 11.606 19,1% 25,5%
2 Dell 11.320 9.642 14,9% 17,4%
3 Acer* 7.220 5.777 9,5% 25,0%
4 Lenovo 5.760 4.750 7,6% 21,3%
5 Toshiba 3.070 2.450 4,0% 25,3%
6 Apple 2.197 1.577 2,9% 39,3%
andere 32.038 30.896 42,1% 3,7%
gesamt 76.172 66.698 100,0% 14,2%


Computers delivered worldwide in all of 2007 (in 1000s)

Ranking
Company Deliveries
2007 Deliveries
2006 Market share
2007 Growth over previous year
1 Hewlett-Packard 49.571 38.222 18,5% 29,7%
2 Dell 39.690 39.009 14,8% 1,7%
3 Acer* 24.361 18.308 9,1% 33,1%
4 Lenovo 20.108 16.597 7,5% 21,2%
5 Toshiba 11.140 9.091 4,2% 22,5%
andere 123.502 117.484 46,0% 5,1%
gesamt 268.371 238.711 100,0% 12,4%
*) including the gateway figures, source: iSuppli
(anw/c't)


http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/print/104646