[Offtopic] Hewlett Packard, number one worlwide, and a monitor vase

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hewlett-Packard Says Quarterly Results Will Top Forecast 
New York Times, By Damon Darlin
Published: May 9, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 — Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that its earnings for 
the quarter just ended would be higher than previously forecast, largely 
because of strong worldwide sales of personal computers. 

The announcement pushed the company’s stock to its highest point in more 
than six years.. 

IDC, a market analysis firm, said last month that Hewlett-Packard shipped 
28.2 percent more computers worldwide in the first three months of the 
year than last year, while the market increased 10.9 percent as a whole. 

Hewlett Packard's 19.1 percent of the world market makes it the world’s 
number one PC maker.

An increasing percentage of Hewlett-Packard’s sales are for notebook PCs, 
which carry a higher profit margin..

The notebook computers are important to H.P.’s growth because that form 
of PC is the fastest growing, not just in the U.S., but worldwide. 

At the same time H.P. is trying to improve the profit margins on desktop 
PCs, a category showing almost no growth.

Hewlett-Packard’s PC unit is making more highly styled desktops. They are 
all a glossy piano black .. One whimsical feature on more expensive 
models is a small vase, for a flower, that fits onto the PC’s monitor.

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Cheers all ..
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia