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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (37258)	9/13/2000 8:58:41 PM
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Notebook-PC shipments to jump more than 30% in 2000, report shows By Jack Robertson Electronic Buyers' News (09/13/00, 06:12:00 PM EDT) WASHINGTON -- Notebook-PC shipments are expected to jump 31.5% this year to 24.4 million units, almost a quarter of the approximately 100 million total PCs expected to ship in 2000, according to a DisplaySearch report released today. Despite shortages of thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display panels for notebooks in the early months of 2000, passive-matrix LCD sales continued to decline, the report showed. Instead of picking up some of the notebook flat panel display business that active-matrix TFT-LCDs were unable to meet, passive STN panel shipments slipped to 9.7% of all LCD shipments in the second quarter, down from 13% in the same period a year ago. The DisplaySearch notebook report, co-authored by former Dell Computer and Compaq Computer notebook strategy executives, ranked Dell as the leading global TFT-LCD notebook supplier with a 16% market share in the second quarter. Toshiba was second with 12%, followed by IBM with 11%. Broken down by notebook panels size, Dell was first in 14.1- and 15-inch screen systems, while IBM led in the 13.3-in. category. Toshiba led the market in notebook PCs with 12.1-inch displays, while Sony paced the market for systems with screens smaller than 12.1 inches. DisplaySearch said panels of 14.1 inches and larger accounted for 54% of all shipments in the second quarter, double the 26.1% share for the same quarter a year ago. High-resolution XGA notebooks showed up for the first time in the quarter, gaining a 2.7% market share. DisplaySearch forecast XGA notebooks would comprise 26% of the market in mid-2002.