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Apple on Tuesday said that its Mac line generated record single-quarter revenue of $7.2 billion, beating the previous mark set three years earlier by $300 million.
"The Mac not only returned to growth but generated its highest quarterly revenue ever," said CEO Tim Cook in prepared remarks during a call with Wall Street analysts.
Apple said it sold approximately 5.37 million Macs during the December quarter, a 1.2% gain over the same period the year before and the fourth-largest number ever.
As Cook pointed out, the slight uptick in sales was a departure from the recent past: For the four quarters preceding December's, Mac sales had been in decline, sometimes seriously so. The September quarter, for example, was down 14.4% from the comparable period in 2015.
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