HP Regains Throne as Top PC Maker 134
Nick writes "HP is once again the leading PC manufacturer." From the article: "HP has snatched the PC crown from Dell's barely coherent clutches. It has taken HP close to three years to once again lead the market in worldwide PC sales. Under CEO Carly Fiorina and post Compaq, the company largely gave up on the tit-for-tat struggle with Dell for the PC top spot that had been so important to it over the years. Now it has reclaimed the #1 slot during the third quarter on the back of Dell's self-destruction. Overall, worldwide PC shipments hit 59.1m units in the third quarter - a 7 per cent rise from the same period last year, according to new data from Gartner. The US PC market, however, dipped 2 per cent, marking its first fall since mid-2002. Dell is particularly exposed to the US PC market, and it showed." Update: 10/20 16:37 GMT by Z : Switched link to a more current story.
Funny how all reporters are now falling in line... (Score:5, Funny)
I look forward to Sony, Microsoft, and SCO trying this next...
should I switch? (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox, Notepad, & Popcorn are all I mostly use, anyhow.
De Ja Vue? (Score:2, Funny)
3.75 year old dupe? (Score:4, Funny)
2003 article. Slashdot has really gone downhill (Score:2, Funny)
Gamble here! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Zonk Creates Time Machine (Score:2, Funny)
Congratulations Carly Fiorina (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shoddy product and customer service will do tha (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Zonk Creates Time Machine (Score:5, Funny)
Phone Quest time! (Score:3, Funny)
1)Customer looks for tech support number in product manual and literature. No luck.
2)Customer looks for tech support number on web site. No luck.
3)Customer finds the support number by looking in the company's domain registration record.
4)Customer calls number. After being re-routed and bounced and made to call other numbers, customer finally reaches tech support.
5) Customer waits 37 minutes to talk to someone.
6) Customer gets a filtering person, who creates a service record after giving the customer the third degree (When the process is repeated, the filtering person always has to re-create the service record because the previous one forgot to save it)
7) Tech support person asks what the problem is. Customer describes. Support person asks customer to be put on hold. The company disconnects customer after 10 minutes of waiting.
8) Repeat #5,#6,#7 several times. Usually in the same order.
9) Real tech support person on the phone! He asks: "Xvswwwovv wavvwat qzxwzvxx?".
Re:De Ja Vue? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:4 year old article (Score:4, Funny)
Although, to be fair, the rest of us don't read the articles either, so it doesn't usually matter.
Dell's Unfair Advantage (Score:4, Funny)
"Hello these ees 'Dan'...may I be of knowing and becoming on the eashew?"
If it was good enough to say to Steve Jobs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How is this like the Compaq thing? (Score:3, Funny)
I think it's more likely that customers are deserting Dell (because their hardware is no unreliable that it causes small children to have nightmares and sysadmins to have psychotic, nightmare-inducing rampages) and HP just happened to be the next one down the list, so any reduction in Dell's sales will cause HP to become #1.