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Apple Highlights...

Apple's Mac business accounted for 58 percent of the company's total quarterly revenue and was "by far" the best quarter for Mac shipments in the company's history.

Apple sold 624,000 desktops during the quarter, and saw unprecedented demand for notebook systems with sales of 986,000 units, representing 61 percent of the total Macs sold.

In all, Macs sales grew at three times IDC's projected PC growth rate for the same time period, Apple executives said.

Apple ended the quarter within its target range of 4- 5 weeks of channel inventory.

The company will continue to air freight some of its notebooks as well as some iMacs during the current quarter due to demand.

Thus far, Mac developers have delivered over 4000 Universal applications. By end of Dec., Apple expects that over 80 percent of the 500 most ciritical applications available for the Mac will be available as a Universal Binary.

Boot Camp downloads have topped a million and Apple continues to have a plan to integrate the dual-booting solution into Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Leopard remains on track to ship "in the spring" of 2007.

Apple maintains just over 7,000 worldwide distribution points for Macs.