Number of HP 100LX & 200LX's Sold?
Tony Shepherd
how many units of the 100LX and 200LX have been sold by HP? I am attempting
to do some market research, but on that one I don't know where to start.
TIA
Tony
Adam Sundor
: Does anyone in cyberspace happen to know, or could tell me where to find out
The number of units sold is not released by Hewlett-Packard.
However, for all of us in "cyberspace" the answer is:
drum roll please
*****************
* 600,000 *
*****************
that number is for 100lx, 200lx and Omnigo's.
so subtract a somewhat small percentage for Omnigo
since they have been sold only since November,
err on the large side, and use, oh, 10%
Now can you do me a favor and tell what is the
current government price for a HP200lx 2 mb?
If you contact me by email I can tell you
the reference for that number for your reports.
Adam Sundor
PS This makes HP the dominant gorilla in the
marketplace for these type of units.
PPS Since you are with the Pentagon in some fashion,
why not contact HP and ask them directly,
in the interests of our country, of course!
Would not the place "to start" be with HP?
Mack Baggette
> However, for all of us in "cyberspace" the answer is:
>
> drum roll please
>
> *****************
> * 600,000 *
> *****************
>
> that number is for 100lx, 200lx and Omnigo's.
How many 100LXs have been sold would you say?
Cheers,
Mack
--
--------------------------------------------------
Mack Baggette
200LX/Turbo/5MB
ma...@traveller.com http://www.bhm.tis.net/~mack
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind...
--------------------------------------------------
Adam Sundor
: Cheers,
: Mack
As I hinted before, HP does not release individual numbers.
However, they did release _600,000_ for 100LX, 200LX and Omnigo.
I was a little surprised, but not too much, that the fellow, Tony,
from the Pentagon had not unearthed this published fact via HP.
Other numbers, again in the aggregate and maybe not official:
263,000 palmtop computers were expected to be sold in 1994,
with HP dominating the marketplace with their 100LX and 200LX.
How to parcel out how many were 100LX? That's a good question.
As of July 1993, 200,000 HP 95LX's were sold in 2 years.
My guess, per your request, for the HP 100LX, say: 200,000
Adam Sundor
PS Now if only I can buy the HP 200lx for around what I last
sold #2 for, $340, not a bright move, eh? So I will have to
wait to get your memory upgrades - can't do one without an HP?
James Garbarsky
: Does anyone in cyberspace happen to know, or could tell me where to find out
: how many units of the 100LX and 200LX have been sold by HP? I am attempting
: to do some market research, but on that one I don't know where to start.
:
: TIA
:
: Tony
I myseld was wondering that and was wondering where and/or how the
600,000 units was derived from? I aam rather amazed because that is
about the figure I was speculating, roughly 500,000 for the 100/200
series.
Does anyone know perhaps any other figures such as the Psion,
Zaurus, etc. Where can these figures be obtained since they are
proprietary information to the companies. TIA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
" Everthing is | _ __o o | James A. Garbarsky
an | ---\o- _,\<,_ <|\ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
investment " | ~~~~~~ (_)/_(_) -\ |
| *SWIM* *BIKE* *RUN*| garb...@eelab.newpaltz.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Adam Sundor
: I myseld was wondering that and was wondering where and/or how the
: about the figure I was speculating, roughly 500,000 for the 100/200
: series.
In my first post, I was under the mistaken impression that the
number: "600,000" was a derivation. It's not; it's one of the
very few numbers that Hewlett-Packard (HP) has released to the
public. So far, HP has declined to reveal individual numbers.
Adam Sundor
PS 600,000 is for all HP100LX, HP200LX, and Omnigo 100's sold.
Say, aren't you the fellow with the cables? Just wait until
I get an HP200LX to replace the ones I sold. (refrain?)
Alasdair Manson
sund...@assets.wharton.upenn.edu says...
>This makes HP the dominant gorilla in the marketplace for these type of units.
With over 750,000 Series 3 range units sold worldwide, I'd argue that Psion is
the market leader. If you include low-end Sharp units, they would almost
certainly be the market leader.
All the best
Ali
Alasdair Manson
garb...@eelab.newpaltz.edu says...
>Does anyone know perhaps any other figures such as the Psion,
>Zaurus, etc. Where can these figures be obtained since they are
>proprietary information to the companies. TIA
Figures from Dataquest for shipments in 1994 are (figures in 1000s of units):
Units shipped Market share share increase 93-94
Sharp 280 29.5% -13.5%
Psion 220 23.2% +40.2%
HP 106 11.2% -21.3%
Fujitsu 63 6.6% NA
Apple 60 6.3% -44.6%
Casio 60 6.3% -15.3%
Market share Figures from Forrester for 1995 which include 3 months of
estimates are:
Psion 32.7%
HP 28.0%
Apple 14.0%
Sharp 14.0%
I believe that the low show of Sharp here is accounted for because Forrester
looked only at high-end units such as the Zaurus and not the lower-end
128K-type organisers.
Hope you find this useful.
All the best
Ali
Arthur Chance
sund...@assets.wharton.upenn.edu (Adam Sundor) writes:
[On sales of HP palmtops]
> PS This makes HP the dominant gorilla in the
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "this type of unit", but (horribly
vague reference coming up) some time in the last quarter of 95 either
Byte or Personal Computer World had an article on palmtops which said
that worldwide Psion has ~35% of the market and HP has ~28%. (Take
with a truckload of salt, you can see this is at best half remembered.
However, Psion was definitely #1 with HP at #2.) Given that HP don't
seem to attempt to sell palmtops at all and rely on word of mouth,
whereas Psions are advertised just about everywhere, at least here in
the UK, that's quite remarkable. Here in the UK, hardly anyone has
heard of the HP?00LX machines, so when I start using mine everyone
says "Is that a Psion?". (The second question after I've explained
what it is, is always "Does it run Windows?" <Sigh>)
--
You cannot hope to bribe or twist/thank God! the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do/unbribed, there's no occasion to.
-- Humbert Wolfe 1886-1940