Apple's getting a large bite out of the second quarter of this year's fiscal year (April to June,) having sold 960,000 units of Macs in the US. This makes them the fourth largest vendor of computers in the US.

The big three that stands in Apple's way are Gateway, who only sold around 5,000 more units than Apple, HP and Dell. HP and Dell are by far the unbeatable two both having sold more than 4,000 units, with Dell close to 5,000.

Although this is good news for Apple, it did not appear in the top 5 worldwide computer vendors, but it does bode well for the Macintosh systems as they are making headway into a large market share with the US, getting 5.6%. This may not seem like a huge number but bear in mind that HP and Dell each have more than 20% of the market in the palm of their hands and the rest that didn't make it to the top 5 vendors will all split what's left: 31.5% of the market.

What the numbers boils down to is that Apple sold 960,000 units out of the 17,000,000 computers sold in the US. That's a huge number. Also, it's a large step from last quarter where they only had 4.8% of the market. Bottomline, Apple's progressing steadily, especially as it has also grabbed fourth place in leading vendors in computer notebooks last March.

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