If the worldwide growth in the PC market was not due to the resurging sales and popularity of netbooks, then what else could have propel such growth? According to reports, PC shipments during the last quarter grew by 15% as compared to the sales in the same quarter last year.

PC Manufacturer HP was able to ship around 14.7m units which is equivalent to 18.4%  market share. Following HP was Dell with 10.9 million units sold equivalent to 13.6% market share. Lastly we have Acer in third place with 10.3 million units sold for a market share of 12.5%.

But despite topping the worldwide sales chart, HP however lost its position in the European PC market. Well, anyone can attribute this to the lackluster performance of HP’s entry into the netbook market – the HP Mini Note 2133. In the US PC market, Dell is dominating the chart with 29.5% market share, HP at second with 25.7 market share and Apple landed on number 3 with 9.5% market share. Sales of netbooks accounted for around .

One doesn’t have to think too deeply to know that Acer’s position was somehow propelled by its netbook the ACER Aspire One which is growing more popular among netbook users.

If HP pushed their netbook a little farther, they might have taken a bigger percentage of the PC market.