HP overtakes Dell in PC market – Thanks to ~15% growth
Hewlett-Packard snatched the top position in global PC shipments from rival Dell by a slight margin in the third quarter. That’s the finding market researchers Gartner and IDC reported separately Wednesday when they released their respective quarterly studies on the PC market.
This is the first time HP has earned top honors since the fourth quarter of 2003, Gartner said. Gartner estimates that HP shipped 9.652 million units, or 16.3 percent of the total, while Dell shipped 9.541 million, or 16.1 percent. IDC called it closer, estimating 9.831 million units for HP and 9.803 million units for Dell, both equivalent to a 17.2 percent market share and a “statistical tie,” the firm said in a statement. The two market researchers calculated HP’s growth, compared with last year’s third quarter, at slightly over 15 percent, and both put Dell’s growth at 3.6 percent.
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