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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

HP on top shock

IDC says the merged HP/Compaq took back the top spot in PC sales in last year's fourth quarter, with 16.1% of the market against Dell's 15.7%. Apparently this was because HPaq has a bigger following among consumers, who bought PC's for Christmas. (Good job I never bet or I would have lost that one.) IDC reckons total worldwide PC shipments grew by 4% to 38.4 million units in the quarter. (Or 37.7 million PCs and 0.7 million Macs, roughly.)

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