Apple Mac Sales Grow Faster Than PCs

Apple notebooks and desktops in May continued to take market share away from Windows-based PCs in the United States, according to the research firm NPD.

“Apple’s share of desktop and notebook sales online and through brick-and-mortar stores rose to 13% from 11.6% in April, according to The NPD Group. Apple notebook sales rose to 14.3% of overall purchases from 12.5%, while desktop sales inched up to 10.4% from 10.2%,” InformationWeek reports.

Among the drivers in May was an upgrade of MacBook 13-inch screen consumer laptops to faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory, and larger hard drives in every model.

In May, the overall notebook market grew by 40% over the same month a year ago. Apple outpaced overall market growth with a year-to-year jump of 65% reportedly. Windows laptop PCs saw a 37% increase in sales.