“The MacBook Air, all by its lonesome, has captured the majority of the total thin-and-light laptop market, according to data from NPD,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET.
“The MBA grabbed 56 percent of U.S. thin-and-light laptop sales in the first five months of the year, Stephen Baker, an analyst at the NPD Group, told CNET,” Crothers reports. “The remainder, 44 percent, was captured by ultrabooks from various PC makers.”
Crothers reports, “If reviews of the 2013 MacBook Air — announced this month — are any indication of future sales, the situation could become even more lopsided this year.”
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