Mac unit sales, which stalled in the second quarter as customers waited for the new MacBooks that arrived in April and May, took off in the third quarter, coming in just shy of 3.5 million, reports “Fortune.” Or, according to some industry watchers, that figure might even top four million (I think it will).
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Read MoreThe new “Your Mac Life” episode looks at next week’s “Back to the Mac” Apple event, the Windows Phone announcements, and more. Also, “IRC Babe Sly” will have her announcements and announce the “Web Site of the Week.”
You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .
Read MoreProteMac has released ProteMac NetMine 2.0 (http://www.protemac.com/NetMine/), an update of the network firewall for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds a new interface, a new firewall rules editor and a realtime connection request
NetMine can control Internet and network activity of all applications on your Mac. ProteMac NetMine intercepts all network activity traveling from your Mac and from every an application of your Mac.
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In the third quarter of 2010, Apple is estimated to have sold approximately two million Macs (I predict it’s more), and the IDC research group says that puts Apple in third place among US personal computer vendors, passing Acer.
Apple grew more than twice as fast as any other US vendor. According to IDC, it now has 10.6% of the US market compared to 8.9% a year ago. Mac sales were up 24.1% year-over-year. Ahead of Apple in the US market is Dell with 23.1% and HP with 24.3%.
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