07 March 2008, 04:02

Market researcher iSuppli says HP has overtaken Dell on the worldwide computer market

According to figures from the market researcher iSuppli, 268 million computers were delivered worldwide last year. 49.5 million of them came from Hewlett-Packard, which – after six quarters at the top of the rankings – has therefore also taken over from Dell as the market leader in the year as a whole. The market researchers analyse their provisional figures as indicating that HP has shown a strong presence in the marketing channels and has put its money on notebooks.

Dell supplied 39.7 million PCs, 1.7 per cent more than in 2006, while HP was able to show growth of almost 30 per cent. As in the previous year, Acer was in third place, with 24 million devices delivered and, with 33 per cent, showed the greatest growth over 2006. It was followed by Lenovo and Toshiba.

The statistics for the fourth quarter on its own show the firms in the same order. In contrast to the table for the year, the figures for Apple, number six on the list, are also given here. It has held this place since the third quarter of 2007. The figures indicate that Apple contributed almost 2.2 million to the total of 76 million devices delivered worldwide in the closing quarter, taking a 2.9 per-cent market share. With 39.3 per cent, Apple showed the greatest growth. The market researchers say this is explained by Apple's changeover to Intel processors.

Computers delivered worldwide in 4th quarter of 2007 (in 1000s)

Ranking	Company	Deliveries Q4 2007	Deliveries Q4 2006	Market share Q4 2007	Growth over previous year
1	Hewlett-Packard	14,567	11,606	19.1%	25.5%
2	Dell	11,320	9,642	14.9%	17.4%
3	Acer*	7,220	5,777	9.5%	25.0%
4	Lenovo	5,760	4,750	7.6%	21.3%
5	Toshiba	3,070	2,450	4.0%	25.3%
6	Apple	2,197	1,577	2.9%	39.3%
	others	32,038	30,896	42.1%	3.7%
	total	76,172	66,698	100.0%	14.2%

Computers delivered worldwide in all of 2007 (in 1000s)

Ranking	Company	Deliveries 2007	Deliveries 2006	Market share 2007	Growth over previous year
1	Hewlett-Packard	49,571	38,222	18.5%	29.7%
2	Dell	39,690	39,009	14.8%	1.7%
3	Acer*	24,361	18,308	9.1%	33.1%
4	Lenovo	20,108	16,597	7.5%	21.2%
5	Toshiba	11,140	9,091	4.2%	22.5%
	others	123,502	117,484	46.0%	5.1%
	total	268,371	238,711	100.0%	12.4%