Two years ago, after its acquisition of Gateway, Acer, has become the world's third largest supplier of notebooks. Now, thanks to increased sales by 16.6% compared with last year, Acer passed Dell and took second place after HP. According to recent iSuppli, the share of Acer in the third quarter of 2009 had 13.4% of the world's supply of notebooks, the share of HP for the same period had 19.9% and Dell down to third place with 12.9%.

In the first five similar growth rates were only at the company Lenovo, whose results have improved in 17.2%, while Lenovo was in fourth place with 6.94mln sold laptops. Meanwhile, sales of Dell actually declined by 5.9% to 10.34mln devices shipped, compared with 10.99mln last year. Concludes the five largest suppliers of notebook company Toshiba, sales of which rose by 9.7% compared to the same period last year, up 4.01mln shipped laptops.

Global notebook shipments in the third quarter totaled 79.9mln, which is 1.1% more than 79.1mln laptops sold in the third quarter of 2008. This growth has been strong enough to iSuppli has revised its forecast for the entire year. Instead of reducing the 4% predicted earlier, according to analysts now, deliveries in 2009 will be lower shipments in 2008 only 0.9%.