Jeff Campbell
01-14-2010, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/13/apple_captures_7_4_of_us_pc_market_on_31_mac_sales_growth.html' target='_blank'>http://www.appleinsider.com/article...les_growth.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple took advantage of a rebounding PC market this past holiday shopping season, with the Mac maker's U.S. sales rising 31 percent year-over-year to 1.5 million units. That was good enough to keep its share of the domestic pie above 7 percent, despite an influx of budget netbook PCs that flooded the market."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1263478370.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Check out the Toshiba growth rate, a whopping 71.5%! HP isn't bad with 45.1% and Apple in at 3rd on the growth rate with 31.0%. Even with the growth their market share puts them in 5th place overall. The article is a good read for background on how the industry as a whole performed. </p><p> </p>