Global notebook shipments grew 54 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a market research firm report. The growth came on the back of increased adoption of remote working and e-learning across major markets worldwide fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report. It said that gaming and remote work drove record notebook demand during the holiday season. Lenovo emerged as the market leader, followed by HP, Dell, and Apple. Among operating systems, Chrome OS recorded the highest growth in the fourth quarter of 2020. Notebook shipments globally hit the mark of 69.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, Strategy Analytics said in its quarterly report. This was an increase of 53.86 percent from the 45.3 million units shipped in the same quarter of 2019. The increased shipments in the fourth quarter also resulted in a year-over-year growth of 32 percent. Annually, notebook shipments reached 226.8 million units in 2020, up from 172.3 million units in 2019, according to the report. Lenovo led the notebook market with a quarterly shipments record of 17.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, up from 12.1 million units in the corresponding quarter of 2019. But even though its shipments increased, the Chinese company's market share dropped from 26.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019 to 25.6 percent in Q4 2020.