Local service centres talk up Lenovo rise to world’s biggest selling computer

Vishnu Panday & Associates Chief Executive Office Yashwantie Doobay

In the fiercely competitive world of information technology the Chinese brand Lenovo has recently taken over from its equally illustrious competitor Hewlett Packard (HP) as the world’s leading seller of computers, a circumstance that is not without significance even for the miniscule Guyana information technology industry.

Two Guyanese companies, Starr Computers and Vishnu Panday & Associates Inc are associated with the brand, the two being Lenovo’s only service centres in the country.

During the third quarter of this year Lenovo sold 13.7 million computers compared with 13.5 million sold by HP and both Starr and Vishnu Panday & Associates told Stabroek Business that