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Apple Shipping 300,000 MacBooks in November?

ChrisA said:
I'm surprised Apple sold any PPC notebooks after they anounced the PPC was a dead end.
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Think for a minute, and you won't be nearly as surprised. Why would anyone buy a PPC machine after the Intel switch announcement? Here's what I came up with, in a rough order of what I expect was the most likely reason to the least likely.

* They were - hell, are - still great machines.
* If one needed an Apple machine between announcement and release, one had no other choice.
* Stocking up for legacy application/development support.
* Fear of the Rev. A with an unwillingness to wait for Rev. B.
* Rumors of upcoming discontinuation of some form factors.
* Interest in non-x86 architecture.

ChrisA said:
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.
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Agreed anyway. I'm sure many people didn't fit into any of the categories I listed, and are now ending their waits. I just think it's silly to be so surprised that people bought "dead" design.

-The Guy Who Bought His Powerbook After The Intel Announcement
 
ChrisA said:
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.
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The only problem with your reasoning is Apple's statement last quarter.

Notebook sales were through the roof last quarter as well and Apple said that 50% of sales were to people who were purchasing their first Mac.

I find it hard to believe that these first timer's were really going to buy a PPC but decided to wait on the Intel transition before buying.
 
Proud to say my macbook was # x of the 300k macbooks in november. Got mine yesterday and I can't put it down...and the heat output on this thing is low.:D
First mac since my 90 classic and I love it. :cool:
 
5 here

Between my nephews and nieces there will be 5 MacBooks under the various family trees this year, they all started arriving over the last week or two so all those will count for November.
 
I bought a MacBook Pro 17inch and I love it. Just got it Monday. Some people have a shocked look on their face when I tell them how much I got it for. I bought the Mercedes of the laptops, some people are fine with a Toyota.
 
Does this mean that Apple has fixed the numerous (though perhaps not widespread) hardware issues that they had with the first gen. MacBooks?

Talkin' about the RSD, the discoloration, the speakers, and the superdrive (which is really more of a Superdrive issue than a MacBook issue, but yeah)
 
I just got my today, it was delayed 1 day by customs leaving china. but fedex really pushed mine to get it shipped today. I had next day shipping, and apple promised to refund my 27.00 in 5 days. plus the black friday sale so not bad over all price.

to bad I can't hold it right now as I'm at the beach 2 hours away from home.

:(
 
Anyway about these numbers, if they prove true and sustainable, it would mean that sales of these units would see about a 22% quarter-over-quarter increase, which is pretty darned good. The quarter we probably should not use for comparison is Q1 2006 (year ago), when the Intel Macs were widely anticipated, but not yet introduced.
 
flir67 said:
I just got my today, it was delayed 1 day by customs leaving china. but fedex really pushed mine to get it shipped today. I had next day shipping, and apple promised to refund my 27.00 in 5 days. plus the black friday sale so not bad over all price.

to bad I can't hold it right now as I'm at the beach 2 hours away from home.

:(
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Gee, life must be rough when you have to be at the beach.
Here in Calgary, we've been suffering with -30 temperatures.
Oh well, once my MacBook clears customs in Mississauga, it will warm my heart a bit.
And today's chinook won't hurt, either.
 
In a related story, they will receive approximately 100,000 of those Macbooks back from disgruntled customers due to Apple's crappy quality control as of late.
 
just got my mac book , it had 1 dead pixel in it. :( whats apples return policy on dead pixels. its so small can't hardle notice it. screen is 100% better than ibook.

so far so good, going to install vista on it for kicks
 
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