Last July, the research firm IDC published that Lenovo has taken the number three spot from Acer in PC sales with 12.2% market share.  They were behind Dell with 12.9%, while HP held the top spot at 18.1%.

Dell did not hide their excitement when HP announced their PC spinoff as this would result in Dell grabbing the top spot.  But with the increase in Lenovo’s sales, their own PC sales increased by 22.9% year-over-year compared to Dell’s 2.8% growth rate.  That means Dell could be stuck at number two for the time being.

Lenovo chairman Liu Chuanzhi commented that they expect to overtake Dell and become the second-largest PC OEM by the end of the year.

Lenovo recently launched an affordable laptop in the form of IdeaPad Y570 priced at $850.  Though it is cheap and performs well, it’s not aesthetically pleasing so it’ not getting much love from the consmers.

They’re also raging war in the tablet sector with their ThinkPad X220 which is a laptop that converts to a touchscreen tablet with its twist and fold mechanism.  This tablet caters to business-driven people as it packs Intel Core i5-2520M, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, 2.5 GHzprocessor speed and 4 GB RAM.  The ThinkPad X220 sells for $1,299.

Other tablets aimed at the hipper, younger generation are the $199 IdeaPad A1 that runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with a single-core Cortex-A8 processor, 32GB of storage and MicroSD and micro USB slots for expandable storage and front and back cameras, and the IdeaPad K1 that runs the Android 3, has front and back cameras, CPU frequency of 1,000MHz, 32GB integrated memory, 1GB RAM and is priced at $499.

Aside from waging war against other tablet competitors, Lenovo’s director of consumer products and pricing Andrew Barrow dissed Samsung in a statement saying that Samsung only sold 20,000 tablets and that they were just trying to up their sales by creating an illusion that their device was in demand when Samsung stated that they shipped over a million of their tablets.