Dell loses top spot to HP, shrinks in growing PC market

By Stan Beer, ITWire

Friday, 20 April 2007

Last year the clear worldwide PC kingpin Dell, slipped badly in the first quarter of 2007, to be a poor second to Hewlett-Packard. Dell has lost a huge amount of ground in the past 12 months in terms of market share and was the only major vendor to have declining unit sales in a robust market that grew by nearly 9%, according to figures released by research group Gartner.

Both HP, now the clear market leader, and Acer, which moved ahead Lenovo into the number three spot, had fantastic growth spurts, with HP growing unit sales by 28.7% and Acer growing 46.1%. In contrast, Dell's unit sales shrunk by 7.8%.

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