{"id":237844,"date":"2017-11-16T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=237844"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:26:54","slug":"apple-laptops-climb-the-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/237844-apple-laptops-climb-the-ranks.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple laptops climb the ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is now the\u00a0fourth-largest laptop brand worldwide, according to data from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.trendforce.com\/press\/20171115-3020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TrendForce<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple overtook ASUS to claim fourth spot, based on Q3 2017 market share figures.<\/p>\n<p>The top brands were ranked as follows, based on Q3 2017 market share:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>HP &#8211; <strong>25.8%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lenovo &#8211; <strong>20.1%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dell &#8211; <strong>15.6%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apple &#8211; <strong>10.4%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ASUS &#8211; <strong>8.9%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Acer &#8211; <strong>7.7%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Apple&#8230; focused on the new models of MacBook Pro in the third quarter, recording third quarter shipments of 4.43 million units and an increase of 11.3%,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HP recorded strong performance in the third quarter, reaching a single-season shipment of 11 million units for the first time. HP is expected to achieve the annual goal of 40 million units [shipped].&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/237800-new-motorola-photo-printer-mod-launched.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Motorola photo-printer mod launched<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is now the\u00a0fourth-largest laptop brand worldwide, according to data from\u00a0TrendForce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,30274],"class_list":["post-237844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-apple-macbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237848,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237844\/revisions\/237848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}