HP piles PC sales up over Dell
Hewlett-Packard continued to pull ahead of Dell in global PC sales during the fourth quarter of 2006, according to an industry report released Tuesday. Dell was the only top-five vendor to ship fewer PCs in the fourth quarter of 2006 than in the same period of the previous year, reporting a decline of 8.6 percent to 9.6 million units, according to iSuppli.
Dell is struggling to adjust to the resignation of its CEO in January, an accounting investigation by stock regulators, a shareholder lawsuit, and sinking profits. However, HP also hit turbulence in 2006, with a corporate spying scandal that forced the resignation of Chairman Patricia Dunn. Still, Dell had built up such a large lead in annual sales that it held onto a thin 0.3 percent lead over HP in market share for the full year of 2006.
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