Apple, which does not participate in the netbook trend, shipped 1.6 million mobile computers in the third quarter, according to Gartner. The overall PC market also unexpectedly grew in the third quarter of 2009, though it still saw a revenue loss due to falling prices.
– In the third quarter of 2009, Apple’s computer shipments reached 1.6 million units, an increase from the 1.5 million Macs the company shipped during the third quarter of 2008. The number boosted Apples PC vendor market share to 8.8 percent, for a growth of 6.8 percent year over year.

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