Latest data from Gartner says Apple has surged past Acer and Toshiba, becoming the third largest PC vendor in the USA. With a market share of 10.7%, Apple comes behind Dell, with 22.6 market share while HP remains on top with 26.9% share of the PC market. While IDC places Apple third in the US ranking, it also notes that the company has the biggest growth among the top 5 PC vendors with 14.7% in 2nd Quarter of 2011.

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Apple is not yet in the worldwide ranking according to IDC and Gartner and the top five PC vendors are HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Asus, respectively.

via Mashable http://mashable.com/2011/07/14/apple-third-largest-pc-vendor/