The third week of 2007 has nearly gone. It's time to look at some stats of 2006. One of the most interesting questions is "who's the biggest PC vendor worldwide in 2006?". The answer is - Dell. According to IDC, although HP caught up in the last two quarters, Dell was still the biggest one for the entire year of 2006 by having 17.1% market share. HP was in the second position with 17.0% market share (yes, very close to Dell). Lenovo was the third one with 7.3% market share. Acer and Toshiba are fourth and fifth by having 5.9% and 4.0% market share respectively.
The overall PC market has increased by 10%, lower than the forecast of 10.4%. The delayed Windows Vista may be one of the reasons for the slow increase. Another noticeable trend is the ongoing transition in demand from desktop PCs to laptops.
Note: the PC sales figures include desktop, laptop, ultra portable PCs and x86 servers, but not PDAs.
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