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Shane McGlaun (Blog) - June 13, 2008 1:38 PM

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Apple climbs to of the number 7 spot after a year at 8

DisplaySearch says that Dell has recaptured the number two spot from Acer on the list of notebook PC shipments worldwide by brand. HP still holds the top spot on the list. According to DisplaySearch, for the last six quarters HP has held over 20% of the notebook market.

In Q1 2008, HP shipped a total of 6.46 million notebooks worldwide to Dells 4.683 million units. Dell currently holds 15.1% of the worldwide notebook market. According to DisplaySearch, the reclaiming of the number two spot on the list by Dell is thanks to a refocus by the company on retail sales and a special focus on growing business in China.

The last time Dell help a 15% share of the global market was in Q4 2006. Dell isn’t the only manufacturing climbing the rankings for worldwide shipments. Apple moved from number eight worldwide -- a spot it has been stuck in for the last four quarters -- to number 7 on the list. In Q1 2007 Apple shipped 891,000 units worldwide and in Q1 2008 Apple shipped 1.433 million notebooks for a 61% gain year-over-year.

Even with a 61% gain year-over-year Apple isn’t the company on the list with the largest year-over-year growth. ASUS currently holds the number eight spot on the list and moved 1.330 million notebooks in Q1 2008 compares to 796,000 notebooks in Q1 2007 for a gain of 67%.

DisplaySearch says that while Sony is making big gains in the U.S. market with its notebooks with more than a 40% year-over-year growth in America, its global shipments declined. Despite the decline in global shipments Sony still posted a total of 1.321 million units shipped globally in Q1 2008 compared to 1.281 million in Q1 2007 for a 3% year-over-year growth.

The list ranks manufacturers in the following order based on number of global units shipped: HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple, ASUS, Sony, and others.

Dell’s move back into the number two spot on the list was at the expense of Acer. Acer had passed Dell for the number two spot on the global PC shipments list in Q4 2007.

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<<typo alert>>

By Lazlo Panaflex on 6/13/2008 1:53:54 PM , Rating: 1

<<Apple climbs "to of" the number 7 spot after a year at 8>>

Anyway, back on topic..I'll betcha it was partially due to all those cheap Quad core systems they were dumping back then, eh?

RE: <<typo alert>>

By Lazlo Panaflex on 6/13/2008 1:55:49 PM , Rating: 1

oops..nevermind...they're talking about notebooks...duh ;)

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By Digimonkey on 6/13/08, Rating: 0

RE: <<typo alert>>

By aftlizard on 6/13/2008 2:35:04 PM , Rating: 2

Just like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are square, all Apples are PC's but not all PC's are Apples.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By Digimonkey on 6/13/2008 2:54:41 PM , Rating: 4

Really? According to apple commercials apples are apples and computer hardware not made by them running Microsoft Windows are PCs.

I agree they should be labeled PCs. I was just surprised is all. There always seems to be great attempts to separate the two even though the only difference is PCs can't legally run the Mac OS.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By Smartless on 6/13/2008 3:24:31 PM , Rating: 3

Hehe would it be called an iPC? You gotta wonder if they just want all of their products to be in a class of their own. Like you don't have an mp3 player you have an Ipod or you don't have cellphone you have an Iphone. Or a it used to be called a IMac and now its IpaidwaytoomuchforthisthingandImgoingtobesmugabouti t.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By TomZ on 6/13/2008 4:28:51 PM , Rating: 2

It's all about branding. Prior to iPod being in the market, they were called "MP3 players." Now everyone calls them iPods, regardless of what brand they are. Now that is some effective marketing.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By bigboxes on 6/13/2008 9:31:21 PM , Rating: 2

I call 'em mp3 players. I've never ever call them ipods and don't know of anyone else that does either, unless they have an actual ipod.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By monitorjbl on 6/13/2008 10:32:02 PM , Rating: 5

I call 'em witchcraft. That's all they are, really.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By Pirks on 6/13/2008 3:25:31 PM , Rating: 2

quote:
There always seems to be great attempts to separate the two even though the only difference is PCs can't legally run the Mac OS.

This separation stopped once Apple moved from PowerPC to Intel. Now they are just another PC vendor, although the only one with their own software stack. Proprietary Apple software stack doesn't bother analysts, so... here's why Apple is now in the pack :-)

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By redbone75 on 6/14/2008 3:49:38 PM , Rating: 2

A PC is a personal computer. That Apple would insist their computers aren't "PC's" is just marketing. "Don't call it a PC: it's a Mac." <rolls eyes> It's just part of the effort to make their "iflock" feel like they're part of something special.

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RE: <<typo alert>>

By Sunbird on 6/13/2008 2:36:17 PM , Rating: 2

Well, Apples can run Windows...

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Why does Apple monopolize the comment section?

By gochichi on 6/15/2008 2:07:41 AM , Rating: 3

This article is about Dell, not really about Apple. I think Dell could easily get to number 1 again if they continue listening to customer concerns and start taking more care with their designs.

I am a recent convert to Dell and I really want to root for them because they really are the "everyman's" PC maker. They just need to give a little more TLC to their notebooks and really push LED displays out before others. I really think LED screens have a better chance of selling pricier laptops than do faster processors because regular people really care about screen brightness and quality.

The only Dell laptop I would buy is the XPS M1330... they really need to revisit their designs. HP has the cosmetic aspects going on. Dell has consistently been praised for their desktop displays and they need to take that expectation to the laptop as well.

RE: Why does Apple monopolize the comment section?

By Jedi2155 on 6/15/2008 8:32:54 AM , Rating: 2

Hear hear!!!

That's exactly my opinion, although helping out with the coupons a bit more on the smaller laptops would also help especially if they had something to compete with the 9-10" market as well as something as crazily popular as the 700m series again.

The current set of laptops on sale are huge and for most part not very attractive in my opinion. Although the displays look fantastic, but their style is not.

If they do want to compete with the other UMPC's, they also can't take too long in the R&D to try to make it "perfect" like they did with their tablet, plus they can't charge too much for it like the tablet if they really want success. I think thats a perfect example of too much R&D and the price/delays reflect it.

We are consumers, and we are hungry consumers at that. We don't like to wait for our dinner to arrive if it means it gets overcooked and shrunken! Give us our steak now!

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PC or Notebook

By Lifted on 6/14/2008 9:09:13 AM , Rating: 2

In the title you mention PC shipments, then in the article you reference notebooks, then at the end you mention PC's again, but link to a page about notebooks. Surely a writer for DailyTech knows the difference.

RE: PC or Notebook

By retrospooty on 6/15/2008 11:52:29 AM , Rating: 2

I am sure he does... It sounds to me like you dont.

A PC is a "personal computer". Strictly speaking it covers all computers manufactured and sold for personal use... This includes desktops, laptops. IBM-PC's and Mac's.

The term "PC" being separate than Mac is slang that refers to the old IBM-PC vs Apple Mac thing... both are PC's.

Desktops and Laptops are also both PC's - They are differentiated via the term "desktop PC" and "laptop PC" (also called "notebook PC")

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Dell should be about 4

By Zebo on 6/15/2008 12:15:12 PM , Rating: 1

I don't see how dell is even close to #1 - while their products have improved I don't see them as refined or as built as nice as HP's, Sony's or even Fujitsu's - Go to BestBuy and check them all out before buying, you won't buy a Dell. I got an XPS 1530 from a hot deal sight unseen and promptly returned it for HP 9700 after seeing how nice it was at Bestbuy and how shitty my Dell was. The inspirions were even worse though.