PC World - Apple Sells More Than One in Six U.S. Laptops

Apple Inc.’s share of the laptop market is growing — the company now sells more than one in every six laptops purchased in the U.S., a research firm said today.

“Apple’s definitely up,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst at Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group Inc. “Their sales are continuing to grow faster than the rest of the marketplace.”

NPD, which collects its data primarily from retail sources and excludes most online and all direct sales, said Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops accounted for 17.6 percent of June’s unit sales, an uptick of more than three percentage points from May’s 14.3 percent.