Sales also received a boost from healthy demand for mobile computers, mainly laptops, which grew 26.1 percent from a year ago, US technology research house Gartner Inc. said in a recent report.

Demand for desk-based computers were up 6.5 percent, said the report which gave no absolute numbers.

"All markets in the region performed positively, especially India, which grew 35 percent, compared to a year ago," said Lillian Tay, regional principal analyst for hardware and systems.

Lenovo, China's largest computer maker, sold the most computers in the region for the September quarter with 1.017 million units shipped, giving it an 11.9 percent market share in the Asia-Pacific, Gartner said.

Hewlett-Packard of the US was second with 10.1 percent market share, having sold 861,000 computers.

In third place was IBM which sold 672,000 computers, which is the equivalent of 7.9 percent share of regional sales recorded in the September quarter.

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