Apple’s Mac business outgrew the overall PC market in the U.S. by a significant margin in the first quarter, according to research from IDC and Gartner released Wednesday.

Check out my colleague Erica Ogg’s post for the overall news, which has the PC market as a whole growing by 14.6 percent, but the U.S. market growing by just 3.5 percent. Despite that tepid growth in the U.S., Apple saw its U.S. shipments increase by a margin far greater than the market, as well as any other PC maker in the top 5.

According to Gartner, Mac shipments increased by 32.5 percent to U.S. customers. IDC didn’t think Mac growth was quite that strong, pegging the increase at 25.1 percent.

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