Because the survey shows the sales since April 2012. The iPad 1 had been discontinued by then.
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Survey Shows Older and Cheaper iPhones and iPads Remain Popular, MacBook Pro is Best-Selling Mac
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There are clearly some errors in those tables (eg. most recent iPhone 4S sales) and so I suspect the Mac Pro figures may be wrong. However, I don't think the Mac mini is a very attractive proposition cost-wise. It's almost as though the screen in an iMac is free.
He was, but he wondered about the number of "MacBook Pros" sold. In that group, there are computers that have a retina screens, which in turn is one of the reasons why more MBPs than MBAs are sold, and that was what he mainly argued about.
The numbers of 13" MBA vs 13" cMBP vs. 13" rMBP would allow for completely different conclusions. Do we have them? No.
For all I know, zero 13" rMBPs, zero 13" cMBPs and zero 15" cMBPs were sold, while 58% of all portable Mac sales were 15" rMBPs.
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Because more people would buy the 15" MBP instead making them more money at the higher ASP. The 13" MBA would simply take over the "best selling laptop" mantle.
What's the point in having 2 13" models essentially competing with each other. Might as well just scrap the MBA altogether in that case.
Surveys on consumer electronics are notoriously inaccurate due to people having no idea what they have. I recall in the early days of HD reading surveys that grossly overestimated HD penetration.
I'd venture to say a fair number of those Mac Pros are actually MacBook Pros. Look at how many people who've bought a laptop don't know if it's an Air or a Pro.
This is from working at best buy for 4 months. The 13in macbook pros always outsold any other mac available. The reason for this is because most people I talked to, after hearing the differences, always chose the pro as it is upgradeable. A lot of people also liked the cd drive as well. People still buy cd's believe it or not.
I'm not surprised by this at all, there are so many people in so many careers that rely on the Mac Pro to do their job these days - these are just a few:http://www.squidoo.com/apple-macbook-pro
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q4fy12datasum.pdf
My internet is funked up, so I grabbed this chart. It looks like the Mac portables outsell the Mac desktops by quite a bit.
My internet is funked up, so I grabbed this chart. It looks like the Mac portables outsell the Mac desktops by quite a bit.
Not really relevant, had same with 2 different providers here in Europe, but check the thread for yourself:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3393647?start=900&tstart=0
Interesting, thanks for the link. I had never heard of this issue before or experienced it myself since I bought mine back in Nov 2011.
That is a strange way to view things. I doubt the dvd drive had much to do with this. For anyone that uses one even semi regularly, they are likely to go for the built in one. The only downside is that Apple uses the crappy slot loading ones. The Air has a higher resolution display, yet it's still inferior. Viewing angles and everything else are inferior. The resolution isn't much higher. Unless you compare side by side you won't notice the difference. External storage once again is one of those sticking points. You need backups. They are external, yet tying yourself to a desk too much defeats the point of a notebook.
You really are just so far off here. You have far more after market options with the mbp as far as ssds, an that is the only thing that is faster when comparing stock configuration to stock configuration. If you're cpu bound, you might as well go to the 15". I mainly responded to argue the other side, but you really are biased on this topic. You may prefer the macbook air, and they are close enough for most people. My biggest hangup would be its display. It's not very good, and the extra resolution doesn't make up for it.
