BBY - Dell Laptop Computers Are the Most Favored Brand, Survey Says
Laptop computer sales aren’t too hot this quarter, if sales at Best Buy are anything to go by, but not as slow as analysts had expected either. Tickermine surveyed 32 various stores this month including Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart and Radio Shack and asked the following: What, in the respondents view, is the best brand of laptop, which model series does that brand belong to, which brand of microprocessors does this computer have and what is the name of the processor? Dell came in as the most popular laptop computer brand. This was cited by 11 respondents or 34%. Hewlett Packard was next with nine responses or 28% followed by Sony (7 or 22%), Toshiba (4 or 13%) and Acer (1 response or 3%). Respondents stated Ispiron and Pavillion as the model series (9 responses or 34%). Vaio was also popular with seven responses or 22%, Satellite was cited by 4 respondents or 13% and Aspire, G1s and Presario were cited once each or 3%. The attendants we polled cited only two different brands of microprocessors being used by these laptops: Intel, cited by 21 respondents or 66% and then AMD was stated 11 times or 34%. And the names of the processors fell under two categories: AMD Turions, which were the choice of 13 respondents or 41% and Other, which constituted 19 or 59% of those polled.