iPad gives Apple market-leading 19% share of PC shipments
Combined Mac and iPad sales reached more than 21 million in the second quarter of 2012, giving Apple a 19.4 percent share of all PC shipments.
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Dell
Katie Marsal
Apple remains world's largest chip buyer, projected to spend $28B this year
Apple continues to dominate the global electronics supply chain, and is expected to widen its lead as the largest buyer of chips by spending $28 billion in 2012.
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AppleInsider Staff
US PC shipments drop 6% as Apple posts 4% gain
Estimated quarterly PC shipments show the overall U.S. market declined 5.7 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2012 while Apple grew 4.3 percent.
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PC makers hope Apple's iPad is delaying, not replacing notebook purchases
Notebook manufacturers are hopeful that the recent debut of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors, as well as the forthcoming launch of Windows 8, will boost laptop sales and counter the effect of Apple's iPad.
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Dell feeling iPad pressure after soft notebook sales, earnings miss
Though it didn't mention the iPad by name, PC maker Dell did say that "alternative mobile computing devices" had an impact on its sales that contributed to poor performance last quarter.
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Josh Ong
HP regains crown from Apple as world's top PC maker
Four months after being ousted by Apple, HP reclaimed the top spot in the client PC market in the first quarter of 2012, eking out a 40,000 unit lead over the iPad maker.
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Macs again outperform the market as Apple takes 10.6% of US PC shipments [u]
Apple saw its domestic Mac shipments grow to 10.6 percent of the market in the first quarter of 2012, as the company once again grew while the rest of the PC market saw its shipments slide. [Updated with additional data from IDC]
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First wave of Windows 8 tablets rumored to arrive in October
On the heels of a report that Microsoft is aiming to release Windows 8 in September or October, a new rumor claims first-tier tablet vendors will launch their first Windows 8 devices in October.
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iPad & MacBooks combine to give Apple 27% share of all mobile PC shipments
The combined total of iPad and MacBook shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 gave Apple a whopping 26.6 percent share of the mobile PC market, nearly tripling the share held by second-place HP.
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Slash Lane
Sam Oliver
Daniel Eran Dilger
Chris Smith
