Analysts say Mac's US Consumer Marketshare hits 21%

MacNN is reporting that Research firm Piper Jaffray reports that Apple's worldwide computer marketshare expanded from 2.4 percent in 2006 to 2.9 percent in 2007. Notably, enterprise sales represented 70 percent of the growth in 2007. Consumer marketshare is especially impressive, now at 10 percent worldwide, and 21 percent in the United States. This is in face of fierce competition from PC makers such as Dell and HP, and a myriad of smaller companies such as Acer and ASUS. Apple must also fight the popular perception that Macs are 20 to 30 percent more expensive, when the difference is only 16 percent for desktops and 9 percent for notebooks.