Apple overtakes Dell

Apple has overtaken Dell in the UK education market, but is still No. 2 behind Research Machines. Performing well above the market average, Apple has 14.7 percent of the total PC market for education, according to Gartner research numbers cited by Macworld UK. The market includes laptops and desktop computers, but excludes the server market. Research Machines has the largest education market share in the UK with 34.9 percent of the market, while Dell has slipped to No. 3 with 14.1 percent market share. HP trails both Apple and Dell with only 7.7 percent of the market. According to the report, Apple also announced that in the fourth quarter of its 2006 financial year it was the number one computer supplier in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) education market, growing by 32 percent in the market — in part due to company's successful consumer MacBook offering.

by MacNN Staff