Dell and Acer sparring for second place

Posted on Friday, July 16 2010 @ 21:04 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Tech Report noticed the top PC vendor lists from IDC and Gartner contain a major difference. According to IDC the second place once again belongs to Dell, while Gartner claims Acer remained on the second spot.

After several quarters of playing third wheel in the global PC industry, Dell is back in the saddle—at least by IDC's count. The market research firm's latest numbers say Dell had 13% of global shipments in the second quarter, compared to 12.6% for Acer.

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But hold up! According to rival research firm Gartner, Dell wasn't so lucky. Gartner's estimates peg Dell's second-quarter market share at 12.4%, compared to 13% for Acer and 17.4% for HP. Dell, it seems, has become the Schroedinger's cat of silver medalists.

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