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Mac sales grew

Friday, 16 July 2010

Mac sales reach 8-10 per cent in the US: Apple continues its established trend of outgrowing the rest of the PC industry, according to the latest IDC and Gartner PC industry data, with AAPL grabbing near 10 percent of the market...
They show that Apple’s US marketshare continues to climb, reaching 9.8 percent in 1Q10 -- that’s a huge jump in the last few years. This time in 2007, it stood at half of this, meaning that iPhone halo keeps on shining.
Gartner puts Apple in fourth place position among the top 5 US computer makers. Apple returned 9.8% market share on unit growth of 24.7% over the year-ago quarter. 
Just to add contention to this always contentious issue, another agency, IDC, puts Apple's US market share at 8.8 percent on 15.4 percent sales increase year-on-year. This also puts Apple into fourth place. Apple will soon challenge Acer for third place, at this rate.
Industry growth overall was seen as 12.6 percent.

Force connection at higher AirPort frequencies: On Mac OS Hints, an anonymous contributor used iStumbler for Snow Leopard to force a Mac mini to connect at 5GHz when it had defaulted down to 2.4GHz.
iStumbler release 99 Requires Mac OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) or later. AirPort Plugin Requires AirPort or AirPort Extreme Adapter. Bluetooth Plugin Requires Bluetooth Adapter. Notification support requires the Growl Framework.