Mac purchases in the education sector remain a major Apple growth story on an international basis, with more Macs showing up in classrooms.
The company is continuing a fight-back which began in 1999, when Dell surpassed Apple in the US education market for the first time.
Apple finally pressed pass the competing PC firm on the basis of laptop sales in the first quarter of this year, as then confirmed by COO Tim Cook.
Apple remains number two to Dell in the US education market overall, because of Dell's strength in desktop PCs - Dell had 38.4% of the overall market to Apple's 22.8% in Q1
