Tosh and Lenovo finished the quarter with around 98,000 sales apiece to each take 8 percent of the market. (Lenovo edged ahead with almost 200 extra units sold over the quarter at 98,198).
This contrasts with the US position where Apple has overtaken both Acer and Toshiba to become No 3 seller.
In North America, Gartner estimates Apple now has 8.5 per cent of the market, behind HP (31.9pc) and Dell (25.3pc), and ahead of Acer (8.1pc) and Toshiba (5.5pc).
In Australia the Top Three positions were HP, 21 percent of the market (down 1pc); Dell 15pc, up 1pc; and Acer 13pc (up 2pc).
Gartner reckons a total of 1.152 million PCs were sold in the Australian market in Q2 2008, up 9pc on the 1.125 million sold in the same quarter of 2007.
To add further pain to vendors woes analysts claim that Apple is tipped to launch a redesigned iPod Touch and new thiner MacBooks in September.
