Apple sold 1.3 million desktop and portable systems worldwide in its third fiscal quarter, a 12% increase over the same period last year and a 19% jump over this year's second quarter.
Apple's increases are higher than PC sales overall. Research firms Gartner and IDC pegged global PC sales growth this year at 11% and 9.7% over 2005. Sequential growth of Mac sales was more impressive, since the 19% upswing far outpaced the 2.1% decline in global PC sales from the previous quarter cited by IDC.