Image via CrunchBaseThe iPad may be just a one-and-a-half pound sliver of a machine, but it’s got enough weight to tip an entire industry in Apple’s favor.
Count the iPad and Apple is now the third-biggest PC vendor in the world, tech market tracker Canalysis said Wednesday.
Apple’s fourth-quarter PC sales surged 241% over the year-ago period, Canalysis reckons. That’s enough to grab 10.8% of the computer market, or 11.5 million units, up from just 3.8%, or 3.4 million units, during the year-ago period.
Overall, the PC industry grew 19% in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Canalysis. Of course, that figure includes tablet computers, too.
