Just this quarter Acer beat out Dell for second place among laptop shipments worldwide thanks to the gigantic influence of netbooks on the PC market.

In the first quarter of this year HP continued to hold the number one spot with their market share growing to 24.1 percent (more than 7.3 million units shipped). But, the number two spot, which was previously held by Dell, was handed over to Acer thanks to their 18.8 percent market share. Much of this is comprised of netbook shipments, a market that Acer has 30.5 percent of.

31.6 percent of Acer’s shipments were netbooks, while others such as HP, Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo shipped out less than 10 percent of their volume as netbooks.

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