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The world-wide pc-market is in the third quarter faster than expected gegroeid. That appeared from market figures of the investigation desks Gartner and IDC.

“All regions double figures record as for growth, compared with a year ago. Alone in Latin-America is not this the case”, reports Gartner-analyst Charles Smulders. The total pc-market grew according to Gartners with 14.1 per cent in comparison with the third quarter of 2002. The colleagues-analysts of IDC calculate this growth percentage on 15.7 per cent.

The difference in figures of the two businesses comes forward from a different measurement of the number reshipped pc's. Gartners numbers are generally larger because the desk next to brand-pc' s also supposedly 'white box' (brand lynx pc's) and through home users self put together systems counts. According to IDC, there are approximately 38.4 million desktops, notebooks and servers with AMD- and Intel-chips reships in the third quarter. Gartner says that there 42.5 million from the factories have been rolled.

The meanwhile familiar fight round the market leadership between HP and Dell again was won by the last named supplier. HP reduced its arrears however considerably. “The hole between Dell and HP is world-wide shrunk to approximately 60,000 unities, the race was spannender in the third quarter”, tells Smulders.

According to the IDC-figures is the hole between the champions larger, namely 127,000 unities. It goes for this reason otherwise sold specimens; as for reshipped unities, Dell exceeded its nearest competitor with gladly 500,000 unities. The growth figures in comparison with the previous quarter were commit by by both impressive: 27.9 per cent world-wide for Dell, 28 per cent for HP.

Dells world-wide market share is according to Gartner now 15.3 per cent, against 15.1 per cent for HP. On large distance, IBM follows with a share of 5.3 per cent. Piglet Blue reshipped 16 per cent more unities then a year ago. Fujitsu-Siemens and Toshiba occupy respectively the fourth and fifth place as for world-wide market share, according to both investigation desks.

IDC expects a beautiful fourth quarter for the pc-market. “I expects that the positive lines through are pulled in Q4″, says IDC-analyst Roger Kay. “Consumers will self normal behave, what means in this case that they buy more pc's in the traditional strong december month. The growth will especially at the concise customers to see be, where budgets are made up.”