notebook sales statistic Europe/EMEA and US

[lophiomys]

heise news: acer citing an IDC market research on notebooks
showing IBM on 6 place for EMEA.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53056

EMEA PC Market Remains Strong in 3Q04, Acer Takes Third Position in Overall Ranking, IDC Says
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?container ... _18_230259
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"IBM maintained a strong position in the commercial market, although it experienced a softer quarter at just below 15% growth compared with last year. As with FSC, fierce competition from HP and Dell prevented the vendor taking full benefit of corporate and SMB desktop demand, while performance in the notebook and x86 server segments remained strong."
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IDC -Worldwide Portable PC Shipments by Top 10 Vendor, 3Q03 and 3Q04
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sectionId ... =32233-T-2

IDC - U.S. Portable PC Shipments by Top 10 Vendor, 3Q03 and 3Q04
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sectionId ... =32233-T-5

[BillMorrow]

some of the links don't produce info..
just a page to buy the report..

and all this relates to europe, middle east and africa..

[lophiomys]

your are right.
idc must have locked up the information recently.
at the time I posted the two links at the end, referring to worldwide markets,
I could see nice tables displaying sale-numbers.
sorry for that.

[lophiomys]

Taiwan makers: Dell and HP to capture 40% of global notebook market in 2005
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20041110A1001.html
includes table with IBM market shares by IDC

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Taiwan notebook makers may migrate all production to China
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20041102A1001.html

Actually the sticker on the under-side of my R51 reads "Made in China" already.
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Hope these links will not be locked up in due future.
Greetings,
Lophiomys