Apple Macs outgrow Windows in number of shipment for the consecutive 25th quarter in Q2, reports Fortune.
According to Fortune's panel of 61 analysts, which includes 27 analysts from Wall Street and 34 independent professionals, in this quarter, Mac sales will beat last year's Q2 figure of 3.95 million quite easily.
While independent analysts predict Apple will sell 4.49 million units (up 13.6 percent year over year), Wall Street analysts forecast almost a similar figure of 4.45 million, up by 12.7 percent. But, every Fortune panelist believes that when Apple presents its Q3 earnings in two weeks, Mac sales will outpace Windows.
Meanwhile, Gartner has already projected a depressing picture of the PC market in the second quarter where shipment dipped five percent in the United States and globally. While according to Gartner, HP shipments dipped 12.7 percent to 3.98 million units, Dell dropped 9.5 percent to 3.46 million, Acer slipped 14.1 percent to 1.35 million and Toshiba slid almost 20 percent to ship 1.3 million computers. Apple is the only company that maintained growth in the last quarter. Cupertino tech giant's shipments climbed 4.3 percent to 1.91 million units.
IDC also announced that PC shipments are down 0.1 percent from last year and this is the seventh consecutive quarter where the market showed no improvement.
According to the Net Applications estimates, in the end of June, Microsoft will still enjoy the biggest share of the desktop operating system market with 92.23 possession compared to just 6.72 percent for the Mac platform.
