List of laptop brands and manufacturers
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[edit] Brands
[edit] Major brands
Acer - TravelMate, Extensa, Ferrari, Aspire
Apple - MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro- ASUS - Asus Eee, Lamborghini
- Dell - Inspiron, Latitude, Precision, Studio, Vostro, XPS, Studio XPS, Alienware
- Hewlett-Packard - HP Pavilion, HP Omnibook
Fujitsu - LifeBook, Stylistic
Lenovo - ThinkPad, IdeaPad, 3000 series
Samsung Electronics - Sens- Sony - VAIO
- Toshiba - Dynabook, Portege, Tecra, Satellite, Qosmio, Libretto
[edit] Other brands
- BenQ
- Everex - CloudBook, gBook
- Founder Technology
- Gigabyte Technology
- Hasee
HCL- HTC - HTC Shift
- Hyundai
Gradiente- Itautec - Itautec, Infoway
Lanix - Lanix Portatiles, Neuron- LG - Xnote
Medion - Akoya- Meebox - Meebox, Slate
MDG Computers- Micro-Star International (MSI) - Megabook, Wind
- NEC - VERSA, LaVie
Olivetti - Olibook- Onkyo - SOTEC
- Panasonic - Toughbook, Satellite, Let's Note (available in Japan only) [2]
Philips - X200- Positivo Informática - Positivo, Platinum, Aureum, Unique, Premium
- Sharp - Mebius
Siragon, C.A.- TabletKiosk
- Tongfang
- TriGem - Averatec
Vestel- VIA - NanoBook, pc-1 Initiative
- Wipro Technologies
- Wortmann - Terra Mobile
[edit] Defunct
Acorn Computers - Deskbook, Desknote and Solonote- / Fujitsu Siemens (now defunct, as Fujitsu bought out Siemens' share of the company)
Gericom (defunct, now Quanmax AG)- OQO
- PC Club (Clevo brand)
- Vigor Gaming - Atlantis, Augustus, Artorius, and Aegis
- Voodoo PC - Envy
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[edit] Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs)
The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Original Design Manufacturers (ODM).[3]
Major relationships include:[4]
- Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
- Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
- Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
- Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
- Pegatron (former manufacturing & design division of Asus) sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
- Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
- Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
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| ODM | Units sold (millions) | Units sold (millions) | Market share (percent) | Units sold (millions) | Market share (percent) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010[5][4] | 2009[6][7] | 2006[7] | ||
| Compal | 52.1 | 37.9 | 26 % | 15 | 21 % |
| Quanta | 48.2 | 35.9 | 25 % | 24 | 33 % |
| Wistron | 27.5 | 26.2[8] | 18 % | 11 | 15 % |
| Inventec | 16.2 | 21[9] | 15 % | 7 | 10 % |
| Pegatron[10], until 2007 Asus[11] | 15.5 | 10.9 | 8 % | 5 | 7 % |
| Foxconn [10] | 10.0 | 7.2 | 5 % | ||
| Flextronics | 4.3 | 7.2 | 5 % | ||
| Elitegroup [10] | 3.6 | 2 % | |||
| others | 10.0 | 11 | 15 % | ||
| total | 203[12] | 125[9] | 100 % | 72.6 | 100 % |
There is a discrepancy between the 2009 numbers due to the various sources cited; i.e. the units sold by all ODMs add up to 144.3 million laptops, which is much more than the given total of 125 million laptops. The market share percentages currently refer to those 144.3 million total.
[edit] References
- ^ DigiTimes: Samsung sees growth in 1Q11 notebook shipments, the only vendor among top-10
- ^ Toshiba Satellite low cost/high performance (A300-1EZ even cheaper at 699€)
- ^ "Notebook OEM/ODM relationships". http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/679605.html. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
- ^ a b Global and China Notebook PC Industry Report, 2010
- ^ Chuang, Steve (2011-01-14). "Quanta Regains Lead in Global NB PC Shipment in 2010". cens.com. http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_35101.html. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ Culpan, Tim (2010-01-18). "Quanta Seeks New Ventures, Devices After Record Profit in 2009". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-18/quanta-seeks-new-ventures-devices-after-record-profit-in-2009.html. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
- ^ a b Hachman, Mark (2007-05-09). "The Top Laptop Makers Are Not HP, Dell, or Toshiba". PC Magazine. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2127906,00.asp. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ "Wistron Corporation 2009 Annual Report translation" (PDF). Wistron. 2010-04-30. p. 31. http://www.wistron.com/images/acrobat/annual_reports/2009/annual_report_entire_report.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
- ^ a b "Inventec's margin grew 4.5% driven by server sector". www.computex.biz. 2010-04-30. http://www.computex.biz/HeadlineNews_Detail.aspx?list_id=34032. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
- ^ a b c Global and China Notebook PC Industry Report, 2009
- ^ "ASUSTeK Computer Inc.". ASUS. 2008. http://www.asus.com/999/html/aboutasus/mreport2008.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
- ^ http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2011-02/growing-notebook-netbook-market-will-boost-dells-pc-business.aspx?storyid=57439
