This is a list of laptop brands and manufacturers.
Brands
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Major brands
Other brands
Defunct
- Acorn Computers (United Kingdom) â€" Deskbook, Desknote and Solonote
- Compaq (United States) (acquired by Hewlettâ€"Packard) â€" Evo, Armada, LTE, Presario
- Digital Equipment Corporation (United States) (acquired by Compaq) â€" HiNote
- eMachines (United States) (acquired by Gateway Computers)
- Everex (United States) â€" CloudBook, gBook
- Fujitsu Siemens (Germany/Japan) (Fujitsu bought out Siemens' share of the company)
- Gateway Computers (United States) (acquired by Acer)
- Gericom (Austria) (acquired by Quanmax AG)
- Itautec (Brazil) (acquired by Oki Electric Industry, PC/laptop division dissolved)
- Maxdata (Germany)
- OQO (United States)
- Packard Bell (United States) (acquired by Acer)
- PC Club (United States) (Clevo brand)
- Vigor Gaming (United States) â€" Atlantis, Augustus, Artorius, and Aegis
- Voodoo PC (Canada) â€" Envy (acquired by Hewlettâ€"Packard)
- Zepto (Denmark)
Defunct computer models
- iBook
- PowerBook
- Gateway
- Asus Eee
- Studio XPS
- Precision
- Studio
- HP Mini
- HP Omnibook
- Satellite
- Qosmio
- Libretto
- Dynabook
- Toshiba Chromebook
No longer manufacturing computers
- BenQ (Taiwan)
- HCL (India)
- HTC (Taiwan) â€" HTC Shift
- Hyundai (South Korea)
- IBM (United States) â€" sold its personal computer and Intel-based server businesses to Lenovo
- Nokia (Finland) â€" Booklet 3G
- Philips (Netherlands) â€" X200
- Sony (Japan) â€" VAIO â€" sold its PC business division to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP)
- Wipro (India)
Original design manufacturers (ODMs)
The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.
Major relationships include:
- 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, Dell and Lenovo
- Pegatron 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
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. Sources may indicate hard drive deliveries to the ODM instead of actual laptop sales, though the two numbers may be closely correlated.
See also
- List of computer hardware manufacturers
- List of computer system manufacturers
- Market share of personal computer vendors
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