"Taiwan-based notebook makers' combined shipments in the second quarter of 2011 reached 44.49 million units with a sequential increase of 8.5%, better than 5.6% growth of the same quarter a year ago. The shipment growth in the second quarter of 2011 was mainly due to the over one million units of Intel Classmate PCs ordered by Venezuela, while demand from the consumer notebook market remained low and Intel's defective chipsets incident, which caused delays in shipments of new notebook models, did not significantly benefit the notebook makers, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Joanne Chien."<br />
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Also: shipments of MacBook Airs rose by 300,000 to 1m - and were 30% of Apple's total notebook shipments. That's a lot.

Interesting how HP, with its big corporate sales, is faring worse than the industry average.