When Craig Federighi He showed us for the first time the first Macbook of the Apple Silicon era, a year and a half ago, he drew a smile on his face. Because she knew exactly what she had in her hands. And although from the outside it seemed like a very risky bet, Apple risked everything on a winning horse.
Without a doubt, the idea of changing all Apple Macs, to date with Intel processors, for new ones with their own ARM processors has been a complete success on the part of the company. Macs, which for years have remained "stagnant" in the general computer market, are taking a major role thanks to the revolution Apple silicon.
New report de Strategy Analytics, a prestigious market analyst company, shows the sales of the laptop market for the fourth quarter of 2021. And said study reveals that the total sales figures for MacBooks exceed almost all manufacturers of Windows-based laptops.
The numbers prove it: Apple sold 6,6 million of MacBooks in that time period, growing 11% if we compare those figures to the same fourth quarter of 2020.
The numbers of Apple laptops have only been surpassed by another manufacturer, Dell, whose increase in the same quarter was 14%. Chirag Upadhyay, a market analyst, argues for the good health of laptop sales at the time of pandemic that we still drag around the world, which forces many companies to adapt their employees to a hybrid work environment, halfway between the office and home.
The reasons for these numbers
It also justifies those good sales figures for the fourth quarter to the lack of stock in the previous quarter due to the chip shortage. Many notebooks that were already ordered in the third quarter of the year, have not been delivered until the fourth, thus increasing the overall sales figure at the end of the year.
The report concludes that the good figures for MacBook and Windows-based laptops regarding the drop in Chromebooks is due to Apple's success with its Apple Silicon, and the high demand at Christmas for "Gamer" laptops, all of them Windows-based.
