In light of Gateway's imminent departure from the UK and Ireland, combined with Dell and HP's sales troubles, we thought we'd bring you the European and UK PC market data from Gartner. Just to illustrate how things are going.
The figures show how many units of desktops and notebooks the top five5 vendors shipped in Q2 2001.
Western Europe
- Compaq 1,001,201 16.6%
- Dell 686,600 11.4%
- Fujitsu Siemens 588,058 9.8%
- Hewlett-Packard 543,013 9.0%
- IBM 455,227 7.6%
A total of 6,016,939 machines were shipped in the period
UK
- Dell 224,900 19%
- Compaq 197,370 16.7%
- NEC 88,897 7.5%
- Tiny Computers 60,921 5.2%
- Toshiba 55,287 4.7%
A total of 1,181,700 machines were shipped in the period
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