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List of laptop brands and manufacturers

List of laptop brands and manufacturers is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of laptop brands and manufacturers rather than just read about it. In short: This is a list of laptop brands and manufacturers. Manufacturers Major brands Other brands No longer manufacturing laptops Defunct brands Original design manufacturers (ODMs) The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.

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Reference excerpt

This is a list of laptop brands and manufacturers.

Manufacturers

Major brands

Other brands

No longer manufacturing laptops

Defunct brands

Original design manufacturers (ODMs) The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops. That percentage grew to 32% in 1996, 50% in 2000, 80% in 2007 and 94% in 2011. The Taiwanese ODMs have since lost some market share to Chinese ODMs, but still manufactured 82.3% of the world's laptops in Q2 of 2019, according to IDC. Major relationships include:

Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP, and Apple Pegatron (in 2010, Asus spun off Pegatron) sells to Asus, Apple, Dell, Acer, and Microsoft Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Dell, NEC, and Fujitsu Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Framework and HP Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Acer, Dell, Lenovo, and HP Inventec sells to HP, Dell, and Lenovo Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP Clevo and Tongfang sell to different laptop manufacturers like Digital Storm, Eluktronics, Eurocom, Metabox, Sager, Schenker, System76, XMG, Medion, Maingear, Origin, Gigabyte [lower end Gigabyte laptops are Clevo], etc.

ODM laptop units sold and market shares

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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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of laptop brands and manufacturers

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what List of laptop brands and manufacturers claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of laptop brands and manufacturers before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of laptop brands and manufacturers ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of laptop brands and manufacturers

In research: List of laptop brands and manufacturers appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of laptop brands and manufacturers in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of laptop brands and manufacturers is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Computer hardware companies, Laptops, Laptops by brand, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Frequently asked questions

What is List of laptop brands and manufacturers in simple terms?

This is a list of laptop brands and manufacturers. Manufacturers Major brands Other brands No longer manufacturing laptops Defunct brands Original design manufacturers (ODMs) The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers…

Why does List of laptop brands and manufacturers matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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