
Apple's 10.2 million portable computer units sold during the fourth quarter accounted for 17% of the market, compared to 16% for HP and 14% for Acer Group, DisplaySearch said. Dell had 10% of the market while Toshiba had 9%.
"While we anticipate increased competition in the tablet PC market later this year with the introduction of Android Honeycomb-based tablets, Apple's iPad business is complementing a notebook line whose shipments widely exceed the industry average growth rate," said Richard Shim, senior analyst at DisplaySearch, in a statement.
With its release of the iPad last year, Apple has led the tablet-computer market while forcing companies like HP, Dell (DELL) and Research in Motion (RIMM) to follow suit with their own tablet computers. Global shipments of mini notebooks, tablet and touch-screen computers will surge sixfold to about 122 million units in 2016 from about 20 million units in 2010, DisplaySearch said in October.
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