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The table below shows the worldwide market share of the notebook computer market for manufacturers in the years 2006 and 2007.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table gives information about changes in market share of some laptop brands between 2006 and 2007. It is clear that HP held the number one position in the two consecutively years. Overall, Dell had the biggest increase among these manufacturers.

In 2006, almost one-third of laptops sold all over the world was produced by HP, and this figure rose slightly to 34% in 2007. In contrast, Fujitsu-Siemens’ laptops only occupied less than 5% of the whole market in 2006, later it shrunk to around half of the previous in 2007.

Dell saw the biggest increase of market share, from 16.6% in 2006 to around 20% in 2007, while Acer, Toshiba and Lenovo decreased slightly *(made slight changes implies that they were in control) in the percentages of notebook computer’s market over the same period, from 11.6% to 10.7%, 6.2% to 7.3% and 6.6%to 6.2% respectively.