Overall Mac sales up 21%, desktops up 74% year over year

There's probably a number of reasons why this might have happened (and we're sure you can come up with more than we can), but nevertheless, here you go: overall Mac sales are up by 21 percent in October and November since last year at the same time, according to Gene Munster (not pictured), analyst at Piper Jaffray. Desktop Mac sales are especially huge, with the rise as high as 74%, which seems like a typo next to MacBook and MacBook Pro increases of just five percent. In fact, those gigantic desktop sales, some reason, might actually be the reason behind the recent iMac delays.

At any rate, no matter why, Apple is making a boatload on Macs this quarter already. Even without the bulk of the holiday season, the desktops were already flying off the shelves in huge numbers compared to last year.

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Source: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091214/desktop-mac-sale…

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There's probably a number of reasons why this might have happened (and we're sure you can come up with more than we can), but...

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Commandeur

Love the picture. :)

December 15 2009 at 1:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Average White Boy

It's not always that easy to increase sales YOY. Microsoft must have sold about 10 Zunes last year and probably haven't sold more than 10 Zune HDs this year. See how some products just never increase in sales regardless of the overall economy.

December 15 2009 at 12:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Biansta

LOOOL

The pic: hands down, perfect 10.

December 15 2009 at 11:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Quinn Taylor

This post brought to you by the word "curmudgeon" and any negative number you like.

PS - I think you've mixed your orders of magnitude with Psystar. Just sayin'.

December 15 2009 at 10:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Barts

I contributed to this surge by buying a Mac this year (mid-2009 13" MBP).

December 15 2009 at 10:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

muddybulldog

The economy last year is certainly a factor. The large disparity between desktop and portable growth is likely explained by the fact that the MacBook and MacBook Pro had an equipment refresh and sales surge in the same months last year. This year we had a long awaited iMac refresh but no matching refresh on the portables.

December 15 2009 at 10:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JAQ

The fact that the economy was in freefall a year previous might account for a lot of the improvement this year. Like every non-grocery retailer in the US, Apple stores got scary-level quiet in October and November last year, to the point of cutting back on part-timers' hours since there weren't enough people coming into the stores (buying or not) to keep them busy.

December 15 2009 at 9:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

I have to admit... that's one of the better blog post pictures I have seen in a while. Kudos.

December 15 2009 at 9:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

The picture is one the most creative things I've seen here in a while. Gave me a chuckle- good work!

December 15 2009 at 9:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jaeboy17

Too bad the caption is too small to be read on an iphone requiring considerable effort.

December 15 2009 at 9:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply