As predicted here, Dell has regained top spot as the world's biggest PC manufacturer, having been briefly overtaken by the combination of Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. Both companies shipped about 5 million PCs in the quarter but Dell shipped about 200,000 more. IBM came third, followed by Fujitsu-Siemens (big in Europe), and NEC (big in Japan, but it also owns Packard Bell). IDC's figures are here