Mac reaches 5% of computers worldwide

Calculations by analyst Charlie Worlf, consultancy Needham & Company, the third quarter should be much celebrated by Apple. For the first time in 15 years, the Mac comes with 5% of global PC market. It may seem little, but we're actually talking about the high point of the line of personal computers the company.

Overall, Mac sales grew 24.6% during the period, a number obtained thanks to the market in the Asia-Pacific and the corporate world. Considering Macs for personal use, there was growth of 25.6%. Since the professional use, the increase was 43.8% in the quarter.

The indicators contrast with the slowness of the global market for PCs The increase in computer sales was only 5.3%. It means that the Mac has grown five times more than the market.

The analyst points to the cannibalization in PC sales promoted by the iPad, the Apple tablet that replaces the conventional computer in various activities. There was a suspicion that the iPad 2 would decrease the sales of Macs, but what actually occurs is a drop in sales of machines running other operating systems - that is Windows, which continues to dominate.

O Mac continua crescendo e vendendo muito, mas nem por isso o OS X decola como antes. Segundo dados da firma Chitika, o Snow Leopard continua como OS X mais disseminado, em 56% dos Macs. O novíssimo Lion figura em segundo lugar, com 22% da base instalada de máquinas.