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Apple Shipping 300,000 MacBooks in November?

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A Commercial Times report claims that Apple is in line to ship approximately 300,000 MacBooks in November alone.

For reference, Apple shipped 986,000 Portables (MacBook and MacBook Pro) in Q4 2006 (July 1 - September 30).

The 300,000 MacBooks in November represent sales for Q1 2007 (October 1 - December 31st). As comparison, Q1 2006 sales reflected 587,000 over 3 months for iBooks and PowerBooks.

A number of factors would have affected both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter sales. Last year, Apple had not yet introduced Intel models of their portables, and just on November 8th 2006, Apple introduced the long anticipated Core 2 Duo versions of the MacBook.

 
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I honestly don't really think these numbers are all that interesting... but people seem to be reporting them like they are... so there they are, in some context.

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Lets hope that the laptop sales aren't coming at the expense of desktop sales. I'd like to see that Mac Pro and iMac sales are up just as much as the portables.
 
These things are going lot hotcakes. The Mac Pro is selling well to professionals it is just not generally purchased at the Apple Stores. The MacBook and iMac owns Apple's consumer market.
 
who cares about marketshare....

let the sheep have the crap and the smart one use the clever stuff.

its always been like that...

the bigger apple gets the less focus it has for doing good stuff for us, and the more quality control issues will pop up..

god knows they havnt been exactly awol of late at best.

besides, it would be really crap going into a starbucks or a costa and not having any pcs to take the piss out of...
 
Well, the MacBook is a fantastic machine at a great price point - I'm not surprised they're shipping so many. Especially with christmas coming up...
 
vincebio said:
who cares about marketshare....

let the sheep have the crap and the smart one use the clever stuff.

its always been like that...

the bigger apple gets the less focus it has for doing good stuff for us, and the more quality control issues will pop up..

god knows they havnt been exactly awol of late at best.

besides, it would be really crap going into a starbucks or a costa and not having any pcs to take the piss out of...
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ugh, can we further the mac superiority complex stereotype any more?

not EVERY thread needs to bash PCs.
 
ero87 said:
ugh, can we further the mac superiority complex stereotype any more?

not EVERY thread needs to bash PCs.
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yeah it gets a bit repetive, but atleast for me it gives me a warm feeling and a smile, who doesn't want to feel superior? We're following apple rumors on macrumors - a mac forum, if we don't have some pro apple sympathies then why does this forum even exist?
 
good thing. they'll sell, they'll sell well, and apple will be able to supply what the people want. :)
 
I was wondering, will Apple's share go down for a bit after Christmas- in the sense that the numbers they are selling will remain high, but with the arrival of "Vista" there will surely be a rise in PC buyers who want a new PC but are waiting for the new system to save the cost of buying it? Just a thought...
 
Just a bump in sale because the "waiters" are now buyers

So what. Apple is selling more computers now after the transition to Intel than they did while the transition was in progress. I'm surprised Apple sold any PPC notebooks after they anounced the PPC was a dead end. What we are seeing now is a "bump" in sales due to all those people who were waiting for things to settle down before they bought a notebook.

I expect that when Adobe ships CS3 as a universal binary we will see a big jump in Mac Pro sales. A lot of people are waiting.
 
I am not at all surprised. In our uni library last year, it was rare that you saw a mac. Now... I'd say at least 1 in 10 are macs! It's absolutely fantastic.
 
Where are the reviews?

This things have been out for almost a month. Where are all the reviews? The web was inundated with them when the MacBook Core Duo was realeased…

Sure the Core 2 Duos are not a very significant upgrade (as in new features), and of course the iBooks had been aging forever.

The MacBook Core Duo had several problems (blown out of proportion or not), such as temperature, case cracking, plastic coloring towards yellow… Where is the feedback on how Apple seems to have addresses those things for the Core 2 Duo release?
 
I'm 1 of those 300,000. In fact, mine is flying high over China as I type.

Seriously, the Macbook is a nice notebook. Small, powerful, decent battery life... About the only major functional disadvantage of the Macbook is the lack of a dedicated graphics card. For the average user, this isn't a big deal and certainly not worth the extra cost. Judging from its sales, many other people think so too.
 
uaaerospace said:
I'm 1 of those 300,000. In fact, mine is flying high over China as I type.

Seriously, the Macbook is a nice notebook. Small, powerful, decent battery life... About the only major functional disadvantage to the Macbook Pro is the lack of a dedicated graphics card. For the average user, this isn't a big deal and certainly not worth the extra cost. Judging from its sales, many other people think so too.
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You mean the MacBook. :)
 
I'm one of them 300,000... One of the first C2Ds... Switched from Dell... Got it first day they were released... Go MacBook...
 
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