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NPD data shows Mac sales growing 5x market growth rate in February

Thursday, March 29, 2007 · 9:40 am · 34 Comments

This morning, Pacific Crest Securities noted to clients that NPD data shows Mac sales growing at 5x the market growth rate in February, ahead of their estimate.

Also this morning, Morgan Stanley commented on the personal computer market saying unit demand rebounded in February after a meaningful slowdown in January.

Morgan Stanley attributed the January slowdown to consumers waiting for Vista PCs.

Total U.S. PC unit growth rebounded to 23% year-over-year in February, which the firm says is in-line with December 2006 growth.

Apple is the only vendor that appears “unscathed by the Vista transition,” according to the firm.

Morgan Stanley is confident that continued Mac momentum and strong double-digit iPod growth in the quarter will allow Apple will beat expectations this quarter.

This information comes from analyst’s notes not publicly available online.

MacDailyNews Note: Apple will announce Q2 07 results on April 25, 2007.

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Freddy the Pig

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:26 pm · Reply

@jovial pc guy – Geez I hope my grandma can use a Mac – she’s been dead 30 years now…
Mom and Dad – both 83 years old have three macs between them and a wireless network. I’ll go out on a limb and say they both are smarter than you are.
Cubert

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:37 pm · Reply

“Apple is the only vendor that appears “unscathed by the Vista transition,” according to the firm.”

Hah, hah, hah! Of course, what the hell did they think would happen?
alansky

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:41 pm · Reply

Despite dozens of articles like this one that suggest a fast-growing user base, the figures released by marketshare analysts always seem to show that Apple’s share of the pie (as it were) is growing infinitessimally, if at all. I have concluded the obvious: the bean counters lie. They would like to hold Apple’s head under water til it drowns; but since they can’t do that, they settle for kicking sand in Apple’s face. No matter. Success is its own reward, regardless of what the bean counters think.
Cubert

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:43 pm · Reply

Gee, Jovial PC User, what would I rather do – hunt and peck around Winblows trying desperately to do what I want to do or get on my Mac and do it in less than half the time.

There is a reason why it takes me 30 minutes to do something in PowerPoint that takes me only 5 minutes to do in Keynote – and you can never seem to get it just the way you want in PowerPoint, too.
CandTsmac

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 12:58 pm · Reply

@ Quevar

Are you Quevar in the Bionic land?

I signed up as CandTsmac.

Go team Mac Daily News.

PS MDN webmasters. We should have a page about this. Help to get more of us on board.

Just a thought.

Quevar. Keep posting this, so will I.
KenC

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 1:35 pm · Reply

As much as I’d like to share my unused CPU cycles, (I used to run SETI on my Mac), I’m not keen on contributing to global warming more than I have to.
@jovial

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 2:50 pm · Reply

ehhuhhhh, mmmppppfffff, uhhhhrghhh, ohhhHEUHUHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHA UAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAH

Jeez, still frigging stupid on Windows side.

EUHAUHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Jovial, suck it up babe, you are not alone. Most of computers users are idiots on Windows unable to see what’s happening. You’re pathetic, Cancel or Allow. Allow, Allow…
Big Al

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 3:00 pm · Reply

I am Canadian.

The globe can’t warm up fast enough for me. It’s supposed to snow all Sunday and Monday. So much for April.
ken1w

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 4:31 pm · Reply

> NPD data shows Mac sales growing at 5x the market growth rate in February…

So Vista is release and “pent-up” demand is satisfied. As proof that such a demand actually existed, Mac sales are seen as growing at 5x the overall market. It’s more likely that there was no demand for Vista at all. If anything, Mac sales were up BECAUSE Vista was forced on new PCs and people were trying to avoid it. Vista is the greatest thing to happen to Apple since the return of Jobs.
Martin

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 6:36 pm · Reply

@ critic

i agree with you somehow, but, some company’s that use windows and mac os will obviously have to reduce their mac budget a little while they update their pc’s to vista.

i’m not saying that is the righght choice, but it is a (short term) reality.
rahrens

Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 8:15 pm · Reply

@Martin

Why is that “obvious”? I’ve heard numerous sources cite this period as an almost heaven sent opportunity for Apple, in which companies can now evaluate the necessity for new hardware for Vista vs. buying new Macs instead.

Several reasons:

1. Depending on whether you need basic, dog cheap crap or higher end PCs for number crunching apps, Macs can be just as cheap as PCs, and when you figure Total Cost of Ownership, Macs are, even with a higher up front cost, often much cheaper TCO-wise.
2. With fewer Windows PCs, tech support staff can be cut by as much as 30% in some cases, making TCO look even better.
3. Fewer tech support issues means higher productivity.
4. Longer productive life per machine can also make TCO better, and cut procurement costs long term.
5. With the purchase of each mac, you are buying two machines, one that runs Mac OS X, and one that can run the Windows XP license when you dump the old PC. Twice the software selection at half the price!

Realities change!
Common Sense

Sunday, April 1, 2007 - 1:00 pm · Reply

The surge is due to anticipation that powerpc based macs will not be able to run Leopard.
rahrens

Sunday, April 1, 2007 - 10:24 pm · Reply

@Common Sense;

Where did you hear that? I’ve not heard that as an explanation of the surge at all. Pure FUD! Apple has posted the requirements:

Requirements

Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processor
Built-in FireWire
DVD drive for installation
256MB of RAM
3GB of available hard disk space (4GB if you�install the developer tools)

They are posted here:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/

They have been posted there for months!

MW: find, as in seek and ye shall find!
Common Sense

Sunday, April 8, 2007 - 1:02 pm · Reply

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/07/04/06/1742256.shtml

“Despite all of the positive buzz about the Mac operating system and the ‘halo effect’ of iPod sales, Mac OS X market share actually dropped last month, reports Computerworld: ‘The share of PowerPC-based Macs fell … from 4.29% in February to 3.94% in March. That dip was not fully offset by an increase in Intel-based Mac hardware, leading to a overall net decline in Mac share of 0.3%, to 6.08% in March.’ Meanwhile, Vista is rising, the article says, with just over 2% of computers connected to the Internet using the new Windows OS. The figures are from a company called Net Applications, which collects its data from the browsers of visitors to its network of 40,000+ Web sites

Call me a liar again, these are cold numbers I am sure you will dispel them somehow.