Mac shipments in US up 30% from last year
There's a movement afoot, and it arrives in nice white boxes. Gartner Research is reporting that preliminary data on Apple's 2007 first quarter shows a 30% year-over-year increase in computer shipments. Interestingly, the last quarter of 2006 showed the same increase. With the most recent data, Apple's estimated US market share rises a full point to 5%.This growth in sales (against industry-wide unit growth of 2.6%) is the best indication of the escape-velocity pace of the Mac market's expansion. Woo hoo!
[via Fake Steve/Mac 2.0/MacDailyNews]
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@Miked,
From what I hear, the Santa Rosa chipset (aka Centrino Pro) and Penryn processor will be announced May, which means product updates by June.
Now if they would only get off their butts and release some hardware updates they'd have another convert in me. I've been patiently waiting for almost 6 months now to buy a Mac-mini to replace my aging windows desktop. I would imagine there are a lot of others doing the same.
Yeah - Yeah - they're busy working on the iPhone - Don't care! I want my new Mac!
I'll have you know, my MacBook Pro came in a very classy BLACK box - which I still have... Along with my 23" acd's classy black box and my old 12" PB's black box - man, I have no friends...
April 19 2007 at 7:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI was one of those! Hans, I didn't buy a macbook to run windows. ugh
April 19 2007 at 7:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWho wouldâve thought everybody wants to run windows on a Mac? Itâs a strange world.
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