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Information Technology News Dell loses top spot to HP, shrinks in growing PC market
Information Technology News Dell loses top spot to HP, shrinks in growing PC market | Dell loses top spot to HP, shrinks in growing PC market |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Friday, 20 April 2007 | |
  
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In 1Q07, HP had 17.6% of the global market with 11.03 million units sold (1Q06 14.9%, 8.57 million); Dell had 13.9% with 8.57 million units (1Q06 16.4%, 9.43 million); Acer had 6.8% with 4.28 million (1Q06 5.1%, 2.93 million); Lenovo had 6.3% with 3.97 million (1Q06 3.42 million, 5.9%); and notebook specialist Toshiba had 4.1% with 2.55 million (1Q06 2.21 million, 3.8%). Worldwide PC shipments totaled 62.7 million units in the first quarter of 2007, an 8.9% increase from the same period last year. According to Gartner, Microsoft’s official consumer launch of Vista in January, had very limited impact on overall worldwide shipment demand on a quarterly basis. On a monthly basis, mature regions experienced a bubble in demand following its release. Vista adoption was primarily in the consumer and very small business segments of the mature regions. “HP was helped by the Vista operating system consumer launch in the mature regions, and it is benefiting from a strong position in the channel,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner Dataquest’s Client Computing Markets Group. “The first quarter of 2007 was a transitional quarter for Dell as the company began a major restructuring project.” In the US, although Dell maintained the top position in the first quarter of 2007, it lost considerable market share to HP and is now only a narrow leader. Dell's shipments contracted by 15.5%, while HP increased its shipments by 25.8% wcompared to the corresponding quarter in 2006.{moscomment} |
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