Apple shipped a file variety of MacBooks through the September quarter, a whopping 26% improve over the identical interval of 2021, based on a market-analysis agency. That’s greater than the corporate has ever shipped in a single quarter.

On the identical time, Home windows notebook-makers noticed their shipments decline.

Apple simply had the ‘finest MacBook quarter ever’

Apple introduced just lately that income from Mac gross sales through the July-through September interval shot up 25% yearly. However Cupertino doesn’t reveal what number of Macs it ships every quarter, and definitely doesn’t break it out by kind of machine. It’s due to this fact as much as market analysts to estimate the determine.

Technique Analytics experiences that Apple’s MacBook whole hit 8.1 million in Q3 2022, up from 6.4 million in the identical quarter of final 12 months.

“Apple had a fantastic quarter for MacBook PCs shipments and income, as they managed to ship backlog orders which have been primarily upgrades, plus MacBooks with the brand new M2 chipset driving gross sales throughout a number of areas,” mentioned Chirag Upadhyay, an analyst with Technique Analytics.

Horace Dediu, an analyst with Asymco, concurs and famous through Twitter that “I’m estimating 8.048 million items at $1430 common value. That is an all-time unit and income file.”

Whereas definitely a trigger for celebration, Apple was coming off a horrible Q2. It shipped solely 4.8 million macOS notebooks the June quarter, an annual decline of 13%. As Upadhyay identified, a few of Q3’s soar in shipments is from backordered MacBooks lastly being delivered.

Home windows notebook-makers wrestle

The highest makers of Home windows-based notebooks had their very own issues in Q2 2022 however didn’t see an Apple-like rebound in Q3. As an alternative, their shipments all dropped by double digits in comparison with the identical interval of 2021.

Lenovo pocket book shipments noticed a year-over-year decline of 16%, based on Technique Analytics. HP shipments dropped 32%, Dell’s dropped 25% and Asus shipments have been 16% decrease.

In Q3 of final 12 months, Apple made up 10% of the worldwide pill market. In Q3 2022, its share rose to 14%.