Apple takes 3rd place!

Apple is now the 3rd largest PC seller in the US. 

Computer sales have been pretty muted in the past quarter. Unless you are Apple of course. 

Quarterly PC Tracker Survey released by IDC today reveals, Apple shipped 1.99 million Macs in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2010. That's good for 10.6 percent of the 18.9 million PCs shipped in the U.S, putting Apple's share at its highest in the U.S in the company's history, according to IDC.

This is still far behind Hewlett-Packard's 24.3 percent share and Dell's 23.1 percent share, however both of these companies shipments remained relatively static over the last year. With Apple's growing 24% from the same quarter a year ago.

So what is behind Apples sucess? 

IDC analyst David Daoud says the iPad may be behind this saying... 

"It is very possible that the iPad's marketing right now is impacting [Apple's Mac] business as a halo effect, just like we saw several years ago with the iPod," he said. "The momentum went on with the iphone, now it appears the iPad is playing a similar role, stimulating sales across its product line."

Apple has sold 3 million iPads between April and June and this figure looks to be going up.

It is widely thought that everything that Apple makes seems to sell. This is yet more proof of this theory.