Oh come on! The ignorance shown in this report reflects really badly on the writer and the editorial control of The Inquirer. Come back Mike M, all is forgiven!

This is the worst article for not writing about something that the author simply knows nothing about. If I was the Inq editor I would pull it now!

HP, Acer, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, Dell do not make notebooks, they brand them.

Panasonic may be the only one to do their own thing, but even they may use ODMs

I cannot believe that the Inq has dropped to such an uninformed level of reporting, very sad indeed.

Those two Taiwan-based vendors are manufacturing for every other OEM on this planet. They do not sell directly to end-customers.

The whole article is based on lack of basic understanding as to how the notebook market is working.

Not only do they are two of 3 companies in China that manufacture notebooks for HP and Dell, but EVERY OTHER company including Apple, Toshiba et al.

Just not an informed article at all.

I wish this article could have gone into a little more detail. Quanta and Compal manufacture all of HP and Dell notebooks. How is it that "they ship more than HP?"