Apple has become the largest manufacturer of computers thanks to iPad

A popular tablet iPad, whose sales continue to grow, despite the emergence of numerous competitors, helped by Apple to become the world's largest computer maker in the last quarter, zatknuv the belt of the recognized leaders in this field, as HP, Lenovo, Dell and Acer. This is confirmed by official data released by the recent study by Canalys, which featured the combined category called "client PCs", which includes desktops, notebooks, netbooks and tablet computers.
According to Canalys, total shipments to the world market referred to the client PCs in the fourth quarter of 2011 reached 120 million units, of which the share of the company from Cupertino had 17 percent, including more than 15 million iPad and 5 million computers the family Mac. In the general growth in the client PC market during the reporting period amounted to 16 percent over the same three-month span in 2010, but he achieved mainly due to the tablets. If, however, exclude the factor of "tabs", the volume of supply in this segment, however, declined by 0.4 percent.