This last quarter has been really good for Apple when it comes to Mac sales and according to the latest IDC estimates, Apple would rank among the top five global PC vendors for the first time. We already know that these types of goals are usually achieved, but as long as we talk about a market as dominated by Apple as the United States is, however, if we look further, globally this could be considered the best result to date.
Mac shipments increased approximately 8.9% in the third quarter of this year and according to the IDC consulting firm reported on Wednesday, the figure would be around 5 million units in total. This has been enough to overtake Asus and place Apple in fifth position with a market share of 6,3 percent of the total worldwide.
Although Apple has always remained among the top five sellers of personal computers within the US, the push of windows and the more affordable devices within this platform have slowed the advance of Mac around the world. But an especially strong Apple policy on integrate their teams in universities and schools In addition to the possibility of acquiring reconditioned equipment with better prices, especially in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro ranges, they seem to have boosted sales significantly.
To this has been added that the reduction of 100 euros in the entry-level MacBook Air it has also managed to pick up sales. We already know that in the absence of a complete CPU renewal by Intel, Apple has decided to increase the base RAM of some of its computers while preserving the price.
With all this, the total worldwide PC sales estimated by IDC seems to have fallen 1,7% globally , even so the top five providers increase year over year. Lenovo in first place is left with 15,7 million units sold, followed by HP (14,7 million), Dell (10,4 million) and Acer (6,6 million) and Apple with 4,98 million
The actual numbers for this quarter will be released by Apple on October 20Until then, everything is third-party approximations, although quite reliable, not exact.
