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The figure represented a year-on-year increase of 9.8 percent, attributed to a rapid increase in sales of laptops, with 639,000 pieces sold in the fourth quarter.

The five leading PC providers in the Vietnamese market are Dell (21 percent of total market share), Acer (13 percent), Asus (10 percent), HP (9 percent) and Lenovo (6 percent).

IDC forecast that the local PC market will increase slightly due to a government policy on public expenditure cuts.

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