Filed under: Hardware, Apple Financial, Apple
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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Hans said 7:28AM on 4-19-2007
Who would‘ve thought everybody wants to run windows on a Mac? It’s a strange world.
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bob riffic said 7:47AM on 4-19-2007
I was one of those! Hans, I didn't buy a macbook to run windows. ugh
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Aron Trimble said 7:48AM on 4-19-2007
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...
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Miked said 1:03PM on 4-19-2007
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!
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Reg Muffet said 8:04PM on 4-19-2007
@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.
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