MacBook Air sales rose 2.9% over the prior quarter, even as the broader PC market sagged by 10.1% and overall Mac unit sales fell 10.5%.

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After growing Mac unit sales by a CAGR of over 23% in the four year period until 2011, Apple saw its PC sales decline by over 4% in 2012, by our estimates.

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The iPad has been out only since April, and has already surpassed a 27-year-old product, the Mac, in unit shipments.

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Better-than-expected chip supplies mean lower prices for Mac users who want the fastest unit.

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My "luk" was not "werking" as ghosts in the machine mysteriously wiped out the MAC address on the USB HomePlug adapter in the unit I tried, and the HomePlug bridge that I normally use had some compatibility issues.

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Freddie Mac, the mortgage banking giant that has been a unit of the U.S. government since 2008, reported a smaller loss than last year amid a still faltering housing market.

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Mac sales came in at 4.13 million units, a 23 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

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