According to IDC, Apple's PC market share (those are Macs or Macintoshes as we old-timers call them) is now at 10.6%, nudging Acer from the number 3 spot in the US. As Engadget reports, "Two million Mac shipments during the period represented an increase of 24.1 percent relative to last year, while the overall PC market turned in a somewhat morose 3.8 percent growth." Bear in mind Fortune suggested this week that Apple may ship four million Macs in Q4. Exuberant growth for a platform some called dead a decade ago.
Gartner released numbers showing Acer was still barely in the 3rd spot, but e
