As we all know, Dell had been facing some difficulties a while back in selling its PC to consumers. As they did make some showroom somewhere in Texas, to process orders, but eventually they came down to selling at branded stores such as Walmart, Comp USA, etc. Well, I found something interesting on HP dominating the retail market. The new hp laptops are very fast, but also very sleek in design as well.

“HP retained the #1 spot for global PC shipments in the third quarter, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Overall, PC shipments grew by a healthy 15.5% for the quarter. All top 5 vendors in shipments saw increases in marketshare compared to the same period last year except for Dell. Dell’s marketshare was down 1.7% compared to the third quarter last year, but still placed the company comfortably at second place. Lenovo came in third for the quarter with 8.2% marketshare, followed closely by Acer at 8.1% and then finally Toshiba at 4.4%.HP held the top spot thanks to its 19.6% marketshare and 33% growth in shipments year over year. Other manufacturers with significant year-over-year growth included Lenovo with 22.9%, Acer with 59.2%, and Toshiba with 17.3%. Dell was the only company in the top 5 that saw single digit year-over-year growth of 3.8%.”

Acer too has been capturing the market. They have some great laptops and best of all, really good price. Toshiba is bit iffy, but not bad. I think they need a better battery plan, and maybe some more models. Oh yeah, a little price cut as well.

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