Acer gains ground
"While the third quarter will be remembered as the time when the scale of the global economic/credit crunch truly became apparent, the PC market managed to deliver strong unit shipment growth during the period," Wilkins said.
Among the vendors, the trend of increased domination by the big boys continued, with HP, Dell and Acer strengthening their positions as numbers one, two and three respectively.
However, it looks like Acer's gaining ground on the other two, thanks to the Acer Aspire One netbook. Lenovo and Toshiba completed the top five, again, while ASUS overtook Apple to take sixth.
"On a sequential basis, [Acer] grew its unit shipment market share by 45 percent, and by 79 percent on a year-over-year basis," said Wilkins. "Acer shipped almost three million more notebooks in the third quarter than it did in the preceding quarter, with the majority of those being the company's netbook products."
Unsurprisingly, iSuppli doesn't reckon we'll see anything like this growth next year. While it's revising its 2008 growth forecast to 13 percent, from 12.5, it only predicts we'll see 4.3 percent growth in 2009.
