The announcement during the earnings call
Apple closed fiscal year 2026, spanning September 28, 2025, to September 26, 2026, with the highest number of Macs sold in a single year in the company's history. The announcement came on November 3 during the conference call on fourth-quarter results—the period between June 28 and September 26, 2026—as reported by IT之家.
John Ternus, identified by the source as the group's new chief executive officer, made the announcement. According to the outlet's account, Ternus said Apple had never sold so many Macs in a fiscal year and read the result as confirmation of product quality. This is a company statement: the material does not report volumes, revenue, or comparison with previous fiscal years.
The contribution of laptops and the competitive landscape
Chief Financial Officer Kevan Parekh linked the record to the sustained performance of two models, MacBook Neo and MacBook Pro, without providing per-product figures. The source does not specify how much weight the two laptops carried in the total or whether the record covers all lines or only some.
The data point comes in a PC market that, according to MacRumors' interpretation cited by IT之家, remains characterized by more aggressive competition, with pressure from notebooks equipped with artificial intelligence features and from the Windows segment. The outlet's reading is that the Mac line continues to attract solid support among users. This is an external assessment, not a figure released by Apple.
The same source identifies the transition to Apple Silicon chips, launched by the company years earlier, as one of the factors that would have encouraged both the replacement of older computers and the arrival of new customers, thanks to advantages in performance, battery life, and energy efficiency. Here too, the causal relationship is presented as an interpretation rather than a measured result.
The expansion of the desktop lineup and the open questions
On the product front, the material notes the arrival of the Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips and the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, an expansion of the desktop offering alongside the laptops identified as the main drivers of sales.
Quantitative elements remain to be verified: unit numbers, Mac line revenue, performance by geographic area, and the share of individual models are not present in the text. Also missing is the comparison figure with the previous fiscal year, useful for measuring the scale of the record. The available information therefore makes it possible to record the announcement and executives' statements, but not to assess their economic significance.
