HP Remains Largest Notebook Vendor in the World

Hewlett-Packard might be preparing to cull 8% of its workforce, but in terms of notebook shipment volumes, they’re still tops – at least they were back in Q1 and Q2 of this year. In North America, their share was 21.4%, which turned out to be 0.5% short of catching up to Dell. HP made up for the loss in the markets outside of NA, though, where they scored 20.5%, while Dell had only 12.5%.

Other numbers found in the reports are interesting to take a look at also, especially if you haven’t studied the markets before. Dell and HP in North America are really the only fierce competitors, with Acer coming in third with 14.4% and Apple in fourth with 10.6%, which I consider to be an impressive figure in itself.

Things change vastly when talking about the world markets, where Acer holds the second spot with 17.9%, with Dell in third with their 12.5%. ASUS, a company’s whose notebooks I’ve come to love, hold 5.5% of the market there. Impressive numbers all around, but it will be interesting to see if HP can hold onto their market lead going into this and the next quarter, especially with these job drops imminent.

Growth of the 13.3- to 16-inch panel segment was the strongest during the period, increasing to 88.5%, while the larger than 17-inch segment saw its market share fall to 7.5%. The 10.4- to 12.1-inch segment also saw its market share shrink to just 4% likely due to the high number of netbooks introduced by leading PC brands during the quarter, DisplaySearch noted.