Apple’s Mac laptop sales will skyrocket in 2021 — Apple World Today

Nevertheless, TrendForce currently expects global notebook shipment for 2021 to reach 217 million units, an 8.6% increase YoY. The research group notes that it should be noted that the increasing popularity of distance education has also galvanized a rising demand for Chromebooks, which have contributed substantially to the growth of the overall market. Chromebooks accounted for 14.8% of the global notebook shipment in 2020, while this rate is expected to rise to 18.5% in 2021.

However, the Sellers Research Group (that’s me) thinks the M1 Mac laptops will far exceed Chromebook sales. TrendForce says that the Apple Silicon M1 processors, based on the ARM architecture and officially released in November 2020, reached a “mere” 0.8% market share for the year. Of course, many models of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are back-ordered for weeks. And when Apple releases the expected 14-inch MacBook Pro and a 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 processors, I expect sale to skyrocket.

TrendForce says these products will increase Apple’s notebook market share to about 7%. However, the Sellers Research Group thinks that Apple’s entire laptop line (M1 and Intel systems) will reach at least 20% in 2021. And if you counted iPads as laptops, that figure would more than double, per my predictions.