New Delhi, July 03: Spurred by higher demand during the second half of the last fiscal, the personal computer market, comprising desktops, notebooks and PC servers, grew by a modest 11.7 per cent in 2002-03, at 2.3 million units. According to the survey by infotech advisory IDC India, HCL led the overall commercial desktop market with 133,237 units and a marketshare of 8.9 per cent followed by HP with a marketshare of 7.7 per cent.
In the consumer desktop segment, HP led the market with 52,037 units in 2002-03 cornering a marketshare of seven per cent. HCL stood second with close to four per cent marketshare in this category, IDC said.

HP and HCL recorded gains in consumer space through their efforts in shipping Linux- and AMD based-systems, it said.
Driven by corporate and government demands, portable PC sales grew by 47 per cent on a year-on-year basis with HP emerging as the market leader with 32 per cent marketshare and six per cent ahead of its close rival IBM which had a 26 per cent share. Toshiba had a nearly 20 per cent marketshare for the third slot. Bureau Report