“The following tables list the top retail computer hardware sales for the month of Jan. 2007. The tables are ranked by total dollar volume and unit share in descending order,” Phillip Cruz reports for Bloomberg.
Category: Laptops
(Rank – Brand – Unit Share)
1 – Hewlett Packard – 23.5%
2 – Toshiba – 18.5%
3 – Lenovo – 13.2%
4 – Gateway – 12.7%
5 – Apple – 10.1%
Total Dollar Volume: $949,107,300
Category: Desktops
(Rank – Brand – Unit Share)
1 – Hewlett Packard – 43.2%
2 – Compaq – 12.1%
3 – Emachines – 10.8%
4 – Gateway – 10.5%
5 – Lenovo – 8.2%
Total Dollar Volume: $473,465,700
Category: MP3
(Rank – Brand – Unit Share)
1 – Apple – 72.7%
2 – Sandisk – 8.9%
3 – Microsoft – 3.2%
4 – Creative Labs – 2.9%
5 – Samsung – 2.0%
Total Dollar Volume: $225,288,200
Source: The NPD Group.
Full article with many more categories here.
MacDailyNews Note: NPD’s figures are for retail channel sales only and do not include direct sales, warehouse clubs, Apple Retail Stores, the Apple Store online, Wal-Mart, or Amazon, among others. Add those retail outlets’ sales into the mix and one could reasonably assume that Apple’s unit shares are even higher.
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