MacBook Air 2011 and OS X Lion really helped Apple

Apparently, MacBook Air 2011 and OS X really helped Apple in July. According to latest statistics from the NPD Group, sales of Mac in the last month rose 26 percent over the same period last year. This, of course, much of the credit is the MacBook Air and OS X Lion, the analysts said. According to them, at the moment Mac sales growth rate is six times higher compared to the PC.

According to Gene Munster (Gene Munster) from Piper Jaffray, if this trend will continue in the near future, at the end of the quarter, Apple will be able to put on the market of 4.5 million Mac. True, he also warned investors that the favorable impact of the recent output Lion, MacBook Air and Mac Mini are unlikely to continue until the end of the quarter, and the hype surrounding this latest Apple products can go on the decline. One way or not, soon find out.

It only remains to add that Mac sales growth is ahead of PC in the last 21 quarters, and many experts and analysts believe that this trend will continue yet for a while. According to Ben Reyzesa (Ben Reitzes), factor iPad will not affect the growth of sales of Mac.

Source: MacStories.net

In-Stat: In 2017 the market will be shipped 250 million tablets

Market tablets has already grown to a level where there is no doubt about its existence for a long time. Just because he was the subject of debate for many analysts, who like to look ahead a few years. Throughout the existence of the market has had time to develop a tablet, and the average price lower grades, which are 500 and 135 dollars. Analysts from the company In-Stat decided to look into the future and try to predict how the market will look like tablets in 2017. Many a long-term prognosis may seem ridiculous, but each analyst firm trying to bring irrefutable evidence of plausibility of their theory. The company In-Stat has suggested that in 2017 the market tablets will be shipped 250 million devices from various manufacturers. Of the total amount to 56 percent of 9 - and 11-inch tablet.

"In the future, the plates will be the most functional solutions in the PC market, providing users with unlimited opportunities to work on the web"

- Said Jim McGregor (Jim McGregor), a senior analyst at In-Stat.

The share of tablets with the operating systems Android and iOS be 90 percent of the total market share, while the proportion of tablets, which will serve as a platform operating system is Windows, make up 10 percent. It is not excluded that the tablets based on the ARM architecture-based processors in tandem with Windows 8 will be very popular and its share will increase rapidly, but it's analysts In-Stat believes the hard way.

"The market for tablets and the technologies associated with it, is still evolving. Over the next few years, users will be surprised at the devices from different manufacturers are dedicated to different market segments and uses. In addition, a set of competition between tablets from different manufacturers and a rigid pricing policy will make the pill as the most popular product among ordinary consumers and entrepreneurs, "