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Dubious honor: HP may regain lead from Lenovo in cratering notebook market

Published Jul 31st, 2013 10:15PM EDT
HP Lenovo Notebook Market Share

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It may not mean as much as it did a few years ago, but HP could soon overtake Lenovo to once again become the world’s largest manufacturer of notebooks. Digitimes‘ supply chain sources claim that HP “is expected to see notebook shipments in the third quarter of 2013 increase 15-20% on quarter while Lenovo is expected to see a sequential drop of 7-9%,” which would give HP an overall edge over its Chinese rival in the notebook market. Lenovo has been the only PC vendor to actually perform reasonably well this year as the shrinking PC market has badly hurt OEMs such as HP, Acer and Dell.

Brad Reed
Brad Reed Staff Writer

Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.