The big news in Gartner’s report is that Dell passed Acer to take over the second place position in the global PC market behind perennial leader Hewlett-Packard.

It’s the first time Dell has held the second-place spot in Gartner’s rankings since the fourth quarter of 2008. Gartner credits Dell’s investment in enterprise PC feature upgrades for its improvement.

via PC market downshifting, says Gartner – Computerworld.