An IDC study, supported by preliminary results from Gartner showed that Dell was the second most PC manufacturer in the world, leaving this song to Acer, which has experienced significant growth during the third quarter last year.

The crisis has awarded Dell its 2nd Place

Overall sales of machinery rose by 2.3% over the same period last year to 78.1 million PCs, which is not only a sign of growth in this crisis, but is also bodes well before the release of Windows 7. In all cases much better than the first quarter of the year showed a decline of 2.4%.

Nevertheless, the great upheaval is that the expected descent Dell finally took place (see "Acer will overtake Dell in 2009). This is the first time an American company not climbs higher than third place in the world for PC makers.

Standings

HP has sold 15.8 million PCs worldwide during the third quarter of the year (an increase of 9.3% compared to 2008) and has 20.2% market share. Acer has had a phenomenal growth of 25.6% (the highest market share) by selling 10.9 million machines, which enabled him to capture 14% market share. Dell is one of the top 5 have experienced a negative growth (-8.4%) with 9.9 million computers shipped. Lenovo has 8.9% market share (+18.2%, 7 million PCs sold), against 5.2% (6.9%, 4 million machines shipped) for Toshiba.