From InfoWorld: Apple next week will again boast that sales of its Mac line of personal computers beat the industry average, assuming estimates by researcher IDC hold up.
IDC published Q1 shipment estimates last week for the top five PC makers -- dubbed OEMs for "original equipment manufacturers -- but unlike the previous period, Apple did not make the cut, outdone by the likes of Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer, and Asus.
Today, IDC research analyst Rajani Singh disclosed her firm's Apple preliminary estimate as 4.45 million Macs, several hundred thousand less than the fifth-place Asus' 4.8 million.
IDC's 4.45 million for Apple, however, would be an increase of almost 8 percent over the same period of 2014, when the Cupertino, Calif. company sold 4.13 million Macs. The researcher's Q1 bet would account for about 6.5 percent of all personal computers.
Apple did not release any new Macs in the January-March quarter, although it did begin selling the 12-inch Retina MacBook this month.
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