Apple notebook sales up 94% in April

@2 You don't get it. Outperforming means that apple sales grow faster then the market itself.
Example:
HP, Dell and other sell 1000 computers in 2005 and 1100 in 2006. 10% growth.
Apple sells 100 computers in 2005 and 162 in 2006. 62% growth. 62>10 so they're outperforming.

@4: I second @6 that your comments are stupid. Mac ownership is not an exclusive club where only the few and the pure are admitted so they can raise their noses on everyone else. As a Mac user, I want as many people as possible, even those with a 'Microsoftian' outlook, to switch to Macs to keep the platform viable. (And keep my AAPL holdings rising.)

!, I wonder why you even bother to come here. Much in the same way that controversy helps, even posting a negative comment on a given site helps that site, so if you want TUAW to go away, a first step would be for you to go away. But I don't see either happening, you'll keep coming here like a fly to an electric fly zapper.

Well, Apple notebook sales surely are quite good at the moment, but you should not compare it to last year's numbers. At around this time last year, the switch just began and sales were below the average. Nonetheless, sales are strong, even if not as strong as +94% might tell.

@4: Idiotic comments like yours on this and the next post do more harm to the Mac community than a TUAW post ever could. "Our platform"?? You come across as a simple-minded idiot that any community should be ashamed of.

The term 'out-performing the overall pc market' does not refer to unit sales but refers to % growth.

Let's say that the overall PC market sales increased 10% for the month of April. A company whose sales increased 5% would be under-performing the pc market. A company whose sales increased 62% would be out-performing the market.

Dell & Hp sell more units than Apple but their performance relative to their own sales of April 2006 are growing slower than Apple's relative to it's own sales of April 2006.

I'm sure there are even more people (like me) who would be buying, but are waiting for upcoming events like probably new MBPs at WWDC, and the release of Leopard and maybe iLife/iWork before buying. I think the next few months are going to be even bigger.

Outperforming in the market place is really a very simple idea, I don't know why you Mac haters don't seem to understand it. Follow along with me here...

Apple is currently selling machines faster then the industry average. For instance if HP is selling 100 laptops a day and Dell is selling 100 laptops a day (We'll call that the industry average) then apple is selling 105 laptops a day. Notice how 105 is more then 100? Even though these numbers are fake the principal is what is important. If apple is selling more machines then the other players in the market then that means they are out performing them. Sure, combined more PCs are selling then Apples but in comparison to other companies Apple is doing very well.

Outperforming how again?