Record Mac sales and the huge success of the iPad made Apple experience its best quarter ever.

The world’s most valuable tech company announced on 20 July its financial results for the third quarter of 2010: a record US$15.7 billion, up 61% from last year. Apple also netted a quarterly profit of US$3.25 billion from the previous year’s US$1.83 billion.

A total of 3.47 million Macs and 3.27 million iPads sold accounted for the record earnings. “iPad is off to a terrific start, more people are buying Macs than ever before, and we have amazing new products still to come this year,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

The three months that the iPad has been on the market has already brought in nearly US$2.2 billion for Apple, a sales figure that has already outpaced the entire iPod line, reports CNN.

The company has also sold 8.4 million iPhones during this quarter, including three million iPhone 4 units.

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