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- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+37Very much Yay. Nice growth even during a product transition period, something that's practically unheard of in any company. It's not quite as strong as some have hoped (only 4% over last year Q3), but the numbers are very promising.
The telling numbers will be this next quarter, and then Q307. - badtz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31that 4% pertains to year-over-year increase in desktop sales. NOT laptop sales. Laptop sales jumped a whoppin' 56% from the year ago quarter.
Mac + Windows on the same machine + Linux :p - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24They almost doubled the number of Macs sold in the same quarter 2 years ago. I think any company would kill for sales increases like that. A definite yay for Apple!
- lonelycanuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22You kinda notice this when suddenly every other person on your ichat list has a video icon beside their name!
w00t for built in iSights - trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26And i bought one of those :)
"Compared to the previous quarter, notebook sales were up 24 percent and represented a 16 percent increase in revenue."
Go Apple :) - snakeboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Methinks that no matter what Apple comes out with, you will always have a reason not to buy one.
- BabsUvulaWho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I'm typing this message on my brand new Mac Pro; congratulations Apple you've got another switcher!
- fronkman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18you bet dell sells 1.1 million computers a day? 4 billion computers a year? 2 out of every 3 people ON THE PLANET buy a dell computer every year? $3.2 trillion dollars in sales (assuming a very low average price of $800 per machine) Half of the USA's GDP of $11.6 billion comes from Dell?
Get a life dude. Apple is doing well because they are making electronics that people want. That is the whole point of any manufacturer. Make a product that people want to buy. - photography4me, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Very geat news. Maybe humanity is getting more intelligent after all...
- stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Buy a MacBook Pro. The MacBook will never have the leading edge high-power stuff; it's not the notebook for you if you want that. If you want more power, get the Pro.
- subneural, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Apple just does things right. No regrets switching to a new c2d iMac :)
- BabsUvulaWho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13While on the support line they take that many calls in one day from customers infected with spyware.
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I bought a notebook and some stock. ;)
Seriously though, how could you not see this coming? I walk around campus and see 5 Macs before I see a Dell and many friends of mine are buying nano's even though they have 4th and higher generation iPods allready. A lot of people are saying that Apple has peaked, and Vista may well hurt them, but I think they have a long way to go yet. - friend18, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12me two. Well, maybe not. I bought my macbook on september 1st.
- virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Damn you guys are picky. The MacBook is meant to be, basically, a College-Kids' notebook. Don't flame me here. It isn't perfect but it will do everything a kid in school needs it to. If you need it anything more then that, get the pro.
BTW: I - aeiou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11um, not new ones. Oldsmobile is no longer made GM cut the brand to save money.
- jake57, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12One of those was my Macbook! Happy switcher here.
- shodson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Go Apple! Go AAPL! I bought some stock options (calls) last week, should pop up nicely tomorrow morning. Last time I made money on AAPL I cashed in my profits and bought a MacBook Pro!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Same here, got my MacBook Pro recently.
And this is good for Apple, very, very, good. - yelkereb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@retral
Math is hard, I know, I struggle too. But what's a couple hundred billion dollars between friends. - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Windows might bring some of them in, but it isn't what they stay for.
- linkerjpatrick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Congrads Apple. I'm also typing this on my new MacBook Pro. I also boot into Windows in Parallels just to laugh at it.
- sdubois92, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7macbook here.
- puffarthur, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11to all daytraders: beware the transaction fees and capital gains tax.
Those 2 factors combined almost always guarantee you make overall less net gains than if you simply invested the money in an index fund via a discount broker for a long period, i.e. 10 years or more. Perfect Market Theory FTW!
btw i love my macbook - joshpar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10When oldsmobile re-does its entire line to better reflect consumer wants AND experiences a similar boost in sales, I'll probably digg that too.
- jkoke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7...thereby confirming the stereotype you seem to be angry about.
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@retral
Check your calculations again it's about $3 billion in revenue. - totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71.3 million Dells a day? Wow, some people's perceptions of the market are a bit off :p
For the record, HP and Dell shipped around 9.6 to 9.8 million computers each last quarter, HP slightly edging out Dell in sales for the first time in recent memory. - rtini, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8One of those was my MacBook Pro. It rocks. I dual-boot it into Vista, just to laugh at how lame Windows is.
- zwei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4ditto ...24" iMac here
- ConradB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm writing this on a new MB Pro 17 incher. I run it exclusively in windows as it's my 'work' machine where my only option up to now was a dell.
I have an iMac 20 inch at home to sate my need for mac stuff.
So don't even try to tell me Bootcamp isn't selling more macs. I'm sick of people like Dvorak and others who never buy their own machines, explaining to us ignorant what we are actually doing. - WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Or if you can do it in your IRA and then claim the hardware expenditure as a business expense...
- RyanZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think about 10000 of those 1 million notebooks are on my campus... they're everywhere.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Im actaully suprised that many were desktops...
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4It's probably due to the Mac Pro being released, and all the pent up demand from the pro customers for an Intel desktop Mac... though that was fairly late in the quarter. I actually predict this ratio of desktops to laptops to grow next quarter, as consumer confidence in the pro desktop line is established and supply catches up. This would reverse the trend of ever-increasing laptop:desktop sales ratio, at least until the built up demand is quenched...
- BabsUvulaWho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wouldn't have bought my Mac if I couldn't run Windows on it. I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to port FS X over to OS X?
BTW, I think you need to give Dvorak a break. The guy is hilarious. - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1virtualball is right, but I still think the 15" pros need some more advantages over the macbook before they're really worth it. they should have more usb ports, a firewire 800 port, and all have 1 gb ram by default. 7200 rpm drives should be standard as well.
for the price of the cheapest macbook pro i got a stock 2ghz white macbook and put 2gb RAM in it and a 100gb 7200 rpm HD. that's about CAD$2000.
besides the backlit keyboard I honestly don't wish I had a pro. I like the size of the 13" as well.
right now if you're after an Apple machine at a good value you should get an imac or a macbook. mac pros are a good value, but if you need a mac pro you probably aren't too limited in funds. macbook pros and mac minis are good deals, just not as good as imacs and macbooks right now for what you get. - retral, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Ok, the average price has to be something like 1500-2000 dollars (could even be more), so considering that: their 3-month revenue for macs alone is 240-330 billion dollars? Yowza.
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yep....I got the concept of how to use basic tools down.
But maybe if I DID own a Mac I would evolve and could telepathically smash the ***** out of it with my mind. - codyman, on 10/12/2007, -13/+10I would buy a macbook if they would upgrade it to a core 2 duo and put at least some dedicated graphics in it... i mean.. anything... it doesn't have to be super high tech... just something with dedicated memory honestly
- Negative_Creep, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I'm sure this has nothing to do with being able to run Windows.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5They probably do. I hope that thought helps you sleep better at night.
Given that Dells are much cheaper (in more ways than one) it's a far more impressive feat on the part of Apple even if they sell fewer units.
It's like that old Dennis Miller joke (you know, back when he was funny?) "Don't ya just love these cheap, discount stores? They always have those 2-for-1 sales. Listen, two of *****... is *****. If they really wanna ***** you, they'll give you three." - OuNix, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Now this is what I call news, go apple. One more thing.....stop posting stupid rumors on this site people. thank you very much.
You have macrumors.com for that crap. - PhairOh, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3I completely agree with you codyman. I absolutely can't wait to get a mac, I just want them to come out with the machine that I've been waiting for.
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3...and it's comments like these that just make me wanna go up to guy sitting outside a Starbucks drinking a soy milk flippy whammy frappalappachio and just smash the ***** out of his Macbook with a bat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3Oh... these are probably backdated statistics.
- Halodude1489, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2Wow I bet dell sells that many in one day.
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -21/+4Some people still buy oldsmobile, too.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -42/+5Yay?
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