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January 12, 2011, 6:56 PM EST
By Aaron Ricadela
(Company corrects size of estimate in last paragraph.)
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Global personal-computer shipments rose 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter, missing projections, as consumers held back on holiday purchases and chose Apple Inc. iPads over desktops and notebooks, IDC said.
Hewlett-Packard Co. held onto its top spot with 19.5 percent of the worldwide market, IDC said, though its share of shipments declined 0.7 of a percentage point from a year earlier, IDC said today in a statement. Dell Inc. was second with 12.1 percent and Acer Inc. was third with 10.6 percent.
David Daoud, an analyst at IDC, said the research firm had projected worldwide shipments to rise 5.5 percent.
--Editors: Lisa Wolfson, Nick Turner
To contact the reporters on this story: Aaron Ricadela in San Francisco at aricadela@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net
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(Company corrects size of estimate in last paragraph.)
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Global personal-computer shipments rose 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter, missing projections, as consumers held back on holiday purchases and chose Apple Inc. iPads over desktops and notebooks, IDC said.
Hewlett-Packard Co. held onto its top spot with 19.5 percent of the worldwide market, IDC said, though its share of shipments declined 0.7 of a percentage point from a year earlier, IDC said today in a statement. Dell Inc. was second with 12.1 percent and Acer Inc. was third with 10.6 percent.
David Daoud, an analyst at IDC, said the research firm had projected worldwide shipments to rise 5.5 percent.
--Editors: Lisa Wolfson, Nick Turner
To contact the reporters on this story: Aaron Ricadela in San Francisco at aricadela@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net
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