The leading PC maker by number of units sold on the entire computer market is Taiwan-based Acer, with 33,361 PCs sold, which accounts for an increase of over 18% on the previous year. Acer was also the number one vendor on the laptop segment in the fourth quarter, with 32,650 units, which means the Taiwanese-held company sold a little more than 700 desktop PCs during that period.
Dell ranked second in the fourth quarter of 2011, posting growth in sales by 3.5%.
The market’s number three, according to preliminary IDC data, is another US company, Hewlett-Packard, with 30,387 units sold and over 14% market share.
It should be noted that the top four players were far ahead of the rest in terms of the number of units sold in the fourth quarter, with 27,000 to 33,000 PCs delivered.
South-Korean manufacturer Samsung, which introduced its computer line in Romania last year, sold a little more than 6,000 PCs in the fourth quarter, thus getting an almost 3% market share.
Fujitsu posted the highest growth on the PC market in the fourth quarter, 82%. It sold 5,053 units.
US Apple company, whose computers are among the most expensive on the market, sold 1,205 laptops in the fourth quarter, down almost 20% on the same time of the previous year. The cheapest Apple laptop, the 11″ MacBook Air starts at about 4,500 lei (over EUR1,000).
(English version by Loredana Frățilă-Cristescu)