Apple takes 3rd in US PC sales with 6.3% marketshare
updated 04:30 pm EDT, Wed October 17, 2007
IDC PC Share Est Fall 2007
Apple is poised to take the largest gains in US computer marketshare over the summer, according to a new estimate from research group IDC. The study predicts that the Mac producer will have shipped roughly 1.13 million computers in the country between July and September, staying roughly on par with rivals HP and Toshiba in terms of year-over-year growth but gaining in overall share to 6.3 percent -- a significant climb from 5.7 percent during summer 2006 and 1.1 more total share than next-best Toshiba. If proven accurate by official quarterly shipment results expected in the next few weeks, the change would help cement Apple's third-place position in its home territory.
Texas PC builder Dell remained in first place but continued to erode share, dropping from 30.9 percent in the US market to 28 percent. HP was second and jumped from 21.6 to 24.3 percent. Gateway was expected to lose the most and stood to fall by more than 14 percent to claim only 4.8 percent, the report said, though IDC analysts did not say which manufacturers would benefit from Gateway's market slump.
Top 5 US vendors as estimated by IDC
Shifts in world marketshare were distinguished primarily by Acer, the researchers noted. The Taiwan company gained 59.2 percent and jumped to 8.1 percent of all computers shipped based on a doubling of its share in the US and strong results in Europe, the Middle East, and its southeast Asian home. HP extended its lead over Dell and was responsible for 19.6 percent of the entire market compared to the 15.2 percent of Dell, due primarily to better notebook sales.
Apple was excluded from the top five and is known to be below the 4.4 percent of fifth-place Toshiba, though IDC said it did not have specific figures available beyond that number. Global Mac shipments have typically hovered between 2.5 and 3 percent in recent years.
Meanwhile, rival research firm Gartner says Apple's earned an even higher market share for the third quarter, claiming that the Cupertino-based company took 8.1 percent of the US PC market, up from 6.2 percent during the same period one year ago. Apple's market share, according to those numbers, grew 37.2 percent year-over-year, which is more than twice as fast as any other manufacturer ranked in Gartner's top 5 PC vendors. The company, however, was still ranked third in Gartner's top 5 US PC vendor list, behind Dell and HP (respectively).
Still strange....
10/17, 05:15pm reply
It's still strange for me to see Apple in the top 5, never mind top 3.
gambit23
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gartner has apple at 8.1%
10/17, 06:01pm reply
Gartner is predicting Apple's U.S. marketshare to be 8.1% with shipments of 1.3 million units.
http://tinyurl.com/25pn8z
sgirard
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Good for Apple
10/17, 09:51pm reply
BUT,
low cost towers are still in huge demand accross the personal computer space.
And apple doesn't compete in this segment.
If they did...more sales, and more marketshare. It would not cannabilize the workstation market that the current towers compete in...that is a separate market anyway.
Kudos to them for providing SOME products people want..and I like the idea of a new mini replacement nano...and I like the idea of a subnotebook...both interesting to me personally.
But I have an aging G4 sawtooth...heavily upgraded though it is...and to my great regret...apple doesn't compete in this space anymore with towers.
Drat!
Jonathan-Tanya
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to quote mactracker
10/17, 10:44pm reply
"The G4 AGP started at $2499 U.S. for the 450MHz configuration with a 20 GB hard drive and 128 MB of RAM, and $3499 U.S. for the 500 MHz configuration with a 27 GB hard drive and 256 MB or (sic) RAM (both included internal zip drives)."
Hmmm. They don't compete in that market anymore?
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Er
10/18, 07:47pm reply
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_350_agp.html
Starting price $1599
eyelidlessness
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Oh, and
10/18, 07:55pm reply
http://macspeedzone.com/html/reviews/machines/desktop/towers/aug-02/all-three.shtml
Starting price $1699.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_1.8_2.html
Starting price $1499.
Apple maintained what's commonly called an xMac (a headless, expandable semi-pro sub-$2k machine) until the pro machines went Intel. It's not like Apple never targeted this market.
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