In a recent report published by ComputerWorld.com claims that Macs now reach 14% of the desktop market, this figure is up from 9% last year.

Mac notebooks appear to be catching on with consumers and you can frequently spot programmers using Macs to write code. Sales of Mac notebooks including the Air, grew 64% last month compared with the same month a year earlier, while sales of Apple’s desktop models were up 55% from 2007 figures.

The MacBook Air, the ultrathin laptop that was unveiled in mid-January by Apple CEO Steve Jobs but which didn’t start shipping until early February, accounted for about 20% of Apple’s notebook sales last month. Better still for Apple, Baker said, it appears that the new model didn’t cannibalize sales of existing Apple products.