Filed under: News | Notebooks and PCs
Jul 17 2008, 1:07am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
According to preliminary data released by analyst Gartner Apple passed Acer in in the PC market to take the 3rd place.
Apple has reached an 8.5% market share of the PC market in the United States in the 2nd quarter of 2008.
Now Apple is only behind Dell and HP in the U.S. PC market.
On a global scale Apple is still not in the top 5 with shipments reaching 71.9m units in the 2nd Quarter, which translates in a 16% gain compared to last year.
On a global scale HP leads before Dell and Acer.
More details on Apple Insider.
Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years
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world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into
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