Apple becomes third largest U.S. PC vendor

07.17.08 Posted in News by Mathew

Macs garnered an 8.5 percent share of the U.S. PC market during the second quarter of the year, pushing Apple past Acer in the national rankings and into third place overall, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market research firm Gartner.

Overall, Apple’s share of the US PC market was up more than 2 percent compared to the same period last year. Total US PC shipments reached 16.5 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 4.2 percent increase from the same period last year.

I wonder how good these figures would look if you include iPhones as “computers”. Lets face it, they run OSX, cost as much as a cheap computer does and do a lot of the same things… could make for interesting statistics.

Of course, I’m not rushing out to buy an iMac, but plenty of people, at least in the US, are.

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