Experts in one voice say about the substantial reduction in the personal computer market. Despite this, Mac sales continue to grow: sales of Apple computers in the second quarter of 2015 jumped by 9% compared with the same period last year.
According to analysts, over the past 12 years computers and laptops Mac has managed to increase its presence in the global market of 1.82% to 5.05%. And their sales continue to grow. The last financial report, Apple has demonstrated a growing interest in computers, the OS X, according to the results of the second quarter increased to 4.8 million units – 5% more than in the previous quarter.
According to sources among suppliers of Apple, despite the General stagnation of the market, the volume of orders Mac for the second half of the year remain stable, and their supplies will exceed the data for the first six months of 2015.
While observers acknowledge the constant growth of the share of Apple in the PC market due to high interest in the MacBook Air users desktop Windows computers on Intel processors. And the latter, in turn, is due to the flexible pricing policy of Apple. Last year the company introduced an updated line of laptops MacBook Air, which received a more powerful processor and dropped $100.
In American Apple Store laptops cost $899 and $1099 for models with 11.6-inch screen and 128, and 256 GB of memory, respectively, and $999 and $1,199 for the 13.3-inch version with the same amount of memory. In Russia the cost of “air” ultrabooks Apple starts with 62 990 rubles for the 11-inch version and 68 990 rubles for a model with a 13 inch screen.
According to analysts, currently a manufacturer of MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac is the company Quanta Computer, and for production of new 12-inch MacBook is responsible Pegatron Technology.
