Market research and consulting firm iSuppli has said that South Korean computer maker Samsung has grabbed a 3.9% share of the global portable PC business in Q1 2010, Cnet has reported. Thanks to hot demand for its Netbooks, Samsung shipped 1.9 million mobile PCs (notebooks and Netbooks combined), a 14.6% jump from the 1.7 million shipped during the fourth quarter, sending it to seventh place from ninth place among such rivals as Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell, and Apple. The company also enjoyed the second best increase in shipments among the top 10 portable PC makers, second only to Fujitsu, which posted a 17.6% gain in shipments, according to iSuppli.

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