Apple's [Mac](https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac "Mac") business growth is a giant high-point in a PC market downturn, with a 40.2% year-on-year increase in shipments for Q3 2022 against a sea of shrinkage from other major PC vendors.

The PC market has been in trouble for [quite a while](https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/11/mac-shipments-grew-in-q1-2022-as-pc-market-slumped), with worldwide shipments continuing to decline. However, while firms like Lenovo and HP are seeing shipment levels drop year-on-year for Q3 2022, Apple is encountering the opposite.