Apple's iPad And Mac Dominated PC Sales In Q2 2013

rarely comes close to attaining the most sales in the PC market.

That's because the Mac, which achieved record sales in 2011 and 2012, rarely sells more than five million units per quarter. In 2013, Mac sales began to decline,

among market watchers. To make matters worse, iPad sales

. Even with that decline, independent analysts at

have concluded that Apple still led the PC market during the second quarter of 2013. Unlike other analysts, which focus only on notebook and desktop PC sales, Canalys combined sales of all iPads (iPad 2, iPad 4 and iPad Mini) and all Macs (iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini and Mac Pro) into one category. This amounted to total sales of 18.6 million units, giving Apple 17.1 percent of the market. Apple sold more units during the year-ago period, when it achieved sales of 21 million units and commanded more than 19 percent of the market. But its Q2 2013 sales still proved to be more than Lenovo, which sold 13.1 million units.