HP Crowned Top PC Seller

Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2002 regained the lead in worldwide sales of PCs from Dell Computer Corp., according to separate reports released Thursday by market research firms Dataquest Inc. and International Data Corp.

The battle played out against the backdrop of an overall increase in the sales of personal computers last year. Some 132.4 million of these machines were sold worldwide in 2002, a 2.7 percent increase over 2001 sales, according to Dataquest, of San Jose, Calif.

In the fourth quarter of 2002, 38.4 million PCs were sold, 4 percent more than in the same quarter of 2001, according to IDC, of Framingham, Mass.

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