Worldwide personal (PC) shipments totaled more than 69 million units in the third quarter of 2025, an 8.2% increase from the third quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. And it was good news for the Mac.
Apple sold approximately 6.2 million Macs in the third quarter of 2025 for 8.9% market share. That compares to sales of 5.6 million and 8.7% market share in the third quarter of 2024. That’s annual growth of 10.7%.
Apple is now fourth among global PC vendors. Ahead of it are Lenovo (27.8% market share), HP (21.5% market share), and Dell (14.5% market share). Note that Gartner doesn’t count iPads as PCs. If it did, Apple’s share would be much higher.
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Windows 11 is no match for macOS Tahoe and above and get ready for Fall 2026-2027 when Apple finally drops Intel Macs and then Intel Mac Apps. From then on both macOS and macOS Apps will not be handicapped with the need for compatibility.
Both macOS and macOS Apps will instantly feel faster then. And macOS size will decrease. And some of the trailing Apps will be recompiled and ported and their sizes will also decrease and they will feel faster.
These many years after 2020 when M1 was introduced. APLLE DOES SUPPORT OLD HARDWARE FOR GOOD ENOUGH TIME AFTER WHICH YOU ESSENTIALLY NEED AN UPGRADE ANYWAY.