A laptop,
often called as a notebook, is a highly portable pc with a smart look.
Since, it occupies minimal space and has low weight around 1.5 kg, it can be
carried to any place. There was a distinction between notebooks and laptops as
of 2014 due to difference in size and weight. But now no longer these
differences exist between laptops and notebooks. Laptops are multifunctional
and can be commonly used almost in almost in every field.
The modern laptops
and notebooks are inbuilt with webcams, microphones, rechargeable battery,
speaker and many other components that are not readily available in the desktop
computers. The industrial revolution and technological advancement has
increased the significance, scope and demand of laptop in the market. The major manufacturer in the market
includes:
1. Hewlett-Packard:
Hewlett-Packard
Company popularly known as HP is a globally recognized leading information
technology company. It was founded in 1 Jan 1939. Hewlett-Packard is publicly
traded American company and it’s headquarter is located at Palo Alto,
California. It is also traded in NYSE as HPQ. As per the record of 2nd
Quarter 2015, 302000 peoples are employed at Hewlett Packard. In 1st
Nov 2015, it was split into two publicly traded companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett
Packard Enterprises. Its products occupy 20.1% shares in the market. Its valued
product line includes:
HP
Pavilion HP Omnibook HP Elitebook HP Envy
HP
OMEN HP Mini
2. Lenovo:
Lenovo
is a Chinese multinational company that falls under computer hardware and
electronics industry. It has it’s headquarter at Beijing, China. It was founded
in 1984 and was also incorporated in 1988 in Hong Kong. 2015 records say that
more than 60000 peoples are employed at Lenovo Company. Lenovo was the largest
PC vendor of the world in 2014. Lenovo products occupy 17.5% shares in the
world market. Lenovo valued product line includes:
ThinkPad IdeaPad 3000 Series
3. Dell:
Dell
Inc. is a privately owned computer technology company of America. It is
American multinational company and has it’s headquarter at Round Rock, Texas,
United States. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1st Feb 1984.
More than 108,800 peoples are employed at Dell Inc. Dell sells wide range of products lines which
includes PCs, servers, network switches, data storage devices, software, HDTVs,
computer peripherals, cameras, printers, electronics, and MP3 players produced
by other manufacturers. It occupies 12.3% shares in the world market. Its
valued product line includes:
Inspiron Latitude Precision Studio Vostro XPS
Studio
XPS Alienware
4. Asus:
Asus
is a publicly traded leading multinational company of Taiwan. It is
headquartered at Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Asus was founded by T.H. Tung in 1989. As per record of 2013 more than 21361 peoples
are employed at Asus. Its major product
line includes: smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktop & all-in-one PCs, Eee
line, Essentio series, digital media receivers, GPS devices, Republic of
Gamers, graphics cards, sound cards, ASUS VivoPC Line, and portable Monitors.
It occupies 11.0% shares in the world market. Its laptops series includes:
Asus Eee Zenbook ROG Series Asus N Asus X
Asus Chromebook
5. Acer:
Acer
Inc. is multinational companies of Taiwan specialized in hardware and advanced
electronics technology. It is headquartered at Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
It was founded as multitech company by Stan Shih et al in 1976. The record as
of 2013 says that more than 7384 peoples are employed at Acer Inc. The major
products includes: desktop, laptop, servers, notebook, tablet computer,
Smartphone, handhelds, monitor, storage, LCD & Plasma, LED, video
projector, and e-business services. It occupies 10.0% shares of world market.
Acer’s laptop series includes:
TravelMate Extensa Aspire Gateway Packard Bell
Acer
Chromebook
6. Apple:
Apple
Inc. is a publicly traded multinational technology company of America. It is
headquartered at Cupertino, California. It was founded by Steve Jobs, Ronald
Wayne and Steve Wozniak in 1st April 1976. More than 115,000 peoples
are employed at Apple Inc. as per the data of 2015. The major Apple product
lines include: computer software, computer hardware, consumer electronics, and
digital distributions. Apple Inc. occupies 9.3% shares of the world market.
Apple’s series of laptop products include:
MacBook
Air MacBook Pro Macbook
7. Toshiba:
Toshiba
Corporation is a publicly traded multinational conglomerate corporation of
Japan. It is headquartered at Tokyo, Japan. It was founded as Tokyo Toshiba
Electric K.K. in 1938 and officially the name of company was changed to Toshiba
Corporation in 1978. Toshiba
Corporation’s product line includes: Electronics, social infrastructure, semiconductors,
computer hardware, home appliances, medical equipments, electrical equipments,
office equipments, elevators & escalators, lightings, etc. As per the
record of 2015, more than 198,741 peoples are employed at Toshiba Corporation.
It laptop products occupies 6.6% shares of world market. Toshiba Corporation’s
series of laptop products include:
Dynabook Portege Tecra Satellite Qosmio Libretto
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