Portable sales continued to fuel Apple's Mac fortunes, with sales of laptops making up 80 percent of the Macs sold during the quarter. Portable sales were up 9 percent over last year.

One item stood out from the Mac facts and figures Apple released Thursday. For the first time, the average selling price of a Mac laptop is higher than that of a desktop.

Strong sales of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro came prior to Tuesday's , "so Apple is continuing to improve its best-selling products," Oppenheimer said.

iPod sales continued to decline. The company said it sold 5.3 million music players, down 19 percent. Those figures don't include the updated iPod touch and nano releases that Apple began shipping two weeks ago.