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[RedRock]

Ready to switch to a Mac?

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US Mac Sales Spike 26% After Apple Releases New MacBook Airs, OS X Lion

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The debut of Apple's new MacBook Airs and its OS X Lion operating system has done what many predicted -- it sent US Mac sales into the stratosphere, AllThingsDigital reported Tuesday.

According to the latest metrics from tech tracker NPD, domestic Mac sales for the first month of the September quarter were up 26 percent year-over-year, buoyed by new hardware and an eagerly anticipated update to Apple's OS X. The result was more than six times the growth of the broader PC market.

If it continues, Apple would likely meet consensus estimates of 4.5 million total Mac sales for the current quarter, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said.

The softening PC market seemed to have little to no effect on Mac sales -- nor was it likely to in the future, given current growth trends.

Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes said, "We believe Apple will continue to gain share in Macs over the long term even as the iPad grows. Given the data and our checks, our estimate for Mac growth of 18 percent year-over-year for Apple's C3Q, may turn out to be conservative even though the global economy appears to be slowing quite a bit."

[Lamron]

The reason PC "sales" are down is that more and more computer users are realizing that its silly to buy a "computer" from Dell, Best Buy, etc. when you can easily build a better or cheaper computer yourself using parts from Newegg or other suppliers. PC computer sales numbers don't tell you anything, you need to look at the number of processors being built/sold.

[RedRock]

Aug 24, 2011 17:33:11 GMT -5 Lamron said:

The reason PC "sales" are down is that more and more computer users are realizing that its silly to buy a "computer" from Dell, Best Buy, etc. when you can easily build a better or cheaper computer yourself using parts from Newegg or other suppliers. PC computer sales numbers don't tell you anything, you need to look at the number of processors being built/sold.

How many typical PC users do you really think are building their own units, or even buying ones built by their friends, cousins, or "that nerdy white guy Phil" down the street? Pfffttttt! Not many, I'll bet. But I have no idea how to find such data. I would have thought that most processor units go to the big guys who roll the pc's right and left off a production line.

[Lamron]

Best wishes and good health to the resigning Steve Jobs. His inovations have pushed the entire consumer electronics market to grow and take a more consumer-based approach to development. People who might not ever own an Apple product have still greatly benefited from the competition that he has created. PC vs. MAC fanboys aside, many products and OS features available to us now from from various companies have their origins in the Apple universe.