Apple sales rock in Q2

Although there's a powerful malaise in the financial markets right now, analysts who follow Apple are reporting stellar figures for the second quarter of 2008 in both overall computer sales and notebook computer sales in particular.

To begin with, research firm DisplaySearch reports that Apple is now the fourth largest seller of notebooks in North America with a 10.6 percent market share. This was the largest jump among top computer makers, rocketing from a 6.6 percent share in the same period of 2007. Dell still leads the notebook computer market with a solid 21.9 percent of all North American notebook sales, and introduction of their new Inspiron Mini 9 subnotebook is likely to help keep them in the lead for the foreseeable future.

Apple's sales of all Mac models in the U.S. jumped a whopping 38 percent during the second quarter compared to the same period in 2007. Gartner reported that the company shipped almost 1.4 million Macs in the U.S. during the April - June timeframe in 2008, up from about 1 million in the second quarter of 2007.

Let's hope that Apple's halo effect can rub off on the rest of the world markets soon!

[via Cult of Mac]
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