“Apple Inc. has a number of chic, high-tech products that consumers can’t get enough of, but among its computer lines, the MacBook reigns as king,” Daniel Jacobs reports for International Business Times.
“‘Based on our data, MacBooks were perceived to have generated greater interest (and purchases) than iMacs among consumers this past weekend, and we believe this will continue throughout the holiday season,’ said ThinkEquity analyst, Darren Aftahi,” Jacobs reports.
“Of retail stores surveyed, 91% of the stores perceived that purchases of MacBooks exceeded those of iMacs. MacBooks trumped in terms of popularity, as well, with 80% of stores perceiving them to be more popular than iMacs, this past weekend,” Jacobs reports. “A worldwide shift away from desktop machines towards portable computers affirms the MacBook’s popularity over its cousin.”
Full article here.
Daniel Drew Turner reports for eWeek, “Apple continues to consistently sell more laptops than desktops, even as a major iMac upgrade enabled desktop sales to achieve a temporary parity with mobile models in 2007.”
“‘The last three 10Ks showed that Apple is selling more laptops than desktops,’ said Tim Bajarin, president of consultancy Creative Strategies,” Turner reports. “Bajarin said, ‘More and more consumers are discovering the Mac’s ease of use and powerful new OS and this has especially driven up the sales of their laptops.'”
“During the company’s earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2007, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said, ‘Demand for Apple’s MacBooks and MacBook Pros continued to be very strong. Sales of portables increased 37 percent over the prior September quarter and accounted for 62 percent of Macs sold,'” Turner reports.
Full article here.
Right on!
I bought a black macbook on black friday. just waiting for it to arrive!
I thought long and hard about paying the extra bit to have a good desktop, or having a cheap macbook.
With the capacity to have the macbook upgraded to 4gb, it’s now more future proof than the iMac.
And plus, the future is the trackpad, not the mouse.
Even before the much maligned “glossy screen” iMac I had decided to switch from a G5 iMac to the then new 15″ MacBook Pro. A 20″ Cinema display for critical editing and all is good! Apple needs to get larger HD’s standard in the portables then the sales will really skyrocket. Desktops may never die, just slowly fade away.
OK. This is probably heresy but….
…I don’t like touchpads. I prefer the little nubs that some laptop makers put on their laptops,but the only one that is worth anything is the one on the ThinkPad series.
But that is just me. I hate pads.
“Desktops may never die, just slowly fade away”
Nothing better (price wise) then a 24″ 2.8Ghz iMac on the desk, with leopard screen sharing to the MacBook.
Giddy up
MW: need – I need my iMac
“..I don’t like touchpads. I prefer the little nubs that some laptop makers put on their laptops,but the only one that is worth anything is the one on the ThinkPad series.”
You’ve got to be kidding me! Those little “nubs” are horrible input devices. At least I’ve never found them intuitive or easy to use.
As for the trackpad, do you use the two-finger scrolling technique? That’s highly addictive.
37!
The fact that “Apple continues to consistently sell more laptops than desktops” may not be entirely the result of the overall growth of the Mac market. My guess is that it’s also specifically related to the growing popularity of Macs among the younger generation, who are perhaps choosing the Mac in larger numbers than their older counterparts and who are also much more likely to live a mobile lifestyle.
Well,
If I have a notebook, and my wife has a notebook, and we still have a desktop then that means twice as many notebooks in our house. Notebooks tend to be more “personal” than the desktop, so you may see multiple folks in a household with a laptop. A desktop is still nice to have, tho.
Some people shy away from all-in-ones and the Mac Pro is more than they want, so…..
OS X has long supported the “right click” for context sensitive menus. Apple released the Mighty Mouse, that supports “right click”. When will they make a “right click” for the Mac Books, be it a second button or something wonderfully innovative in the Apple tradition ? <Ctrl> click just doesn’t cut it!
(For the lefties out there, please replace “right” with “left”.)
Maybe we’re all tired of waiting for an affordable desktop that we can upgrade!
Don’t get me wrong, I love my cheese grater (G5) but it’s getting long in the tooth and I need to replace it.
as far as the contextual menus go…how about they just re-institute how it was in like OS 8 where you could simply hold down the mouse button and the contextual menu would appear?
Unsanity’s Fruit Menu for Tiger allows this. Hasn’t yet been updated for Leopard though.
Amazing that folks just gotta have them “right clicking blues” or else they’ll never be able to get anything done with their Macs. I never right click on anything, and yet I am able to get things done on our Macs.
Simpler is better.
Can anybody take a guess when those new Macbook Pros come out? I wanna buy one (17″) for Christmas, but I don’t wanna be stuck with dead tech if Apple comes out with something new in January. It’s been about 2 years that the MBP has been on the market. Suggestions?
To “right click” on your MacBook or MacBook Pro trackpad:
Goto System Preferences >> Keyboard & Mouse. Check “For secondary clicks, place two fingers on teh trackpad then click the button.”
Now point to something. Drop a second finger anywhere on the trackpad. Click. Voila!
With 2 finger scroll and 2 finger “right clicks”, the MacBook’s trackpad is the best mouse I’ve ever owned!
Ian B.,
Buy a 17″ HP or Dell.
That way you’ll be screwed from the get go.
“Can anybody take a guess when those new Macbook Pros come out? I wanna buy one (17″) for Christmas, but I don’t wanna be stuck with dead tech if Apple comes out with something new in January. It’s been about 2 years that the MBP has been on the market. Suggestions?”
History:
Intro’d — 01/10/2006
Update — 05/16/2006 ~ 5 months
Update — 10/24/2006 ~ 6 months
Update — 06/05/2007 ~ 7 months
Update — 11/01/2007 ~ 5 months
Next update (best guess, based on history): between April and June 2008.
Got both, prefer a tower, more power, larger screen, insanly fast video card and hard drives.
MacBook is good for the mobile basics, but once you have tasted pure speed, you won’t look at a laptop the same way again.
Sorry, but I tend to prefer the iMac. Mine is a 20 in G5 but I could learn to love a 24 in iMac. Drool Drool
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@FUDsucker
How does not liking “all-in-ones” lead to buying MacBooks (or any laptop)? Aren’t they the ultimate All-in-One?
Desktops hold extreme value over laptops in pro markets.
An 8-core Mac Pro has no comparison in laptop markets and
won’t for an extremely long time.
Touchpads = lame. Logitech Marble Mouse = awesome!
I like the MacBooK, But it’s the damn Integrated Graphics that get to me.
I Will keep trailing with my OL Reliable 12′ iBook G4 1.2GHz with 768mb Ram and with Leopard Happily running on it.
IF Apple drops the price to $999 and a capable graphics card, then I might consider it. I paid $699 for my iBook back in Mid 2005 because it was leftover inventory before the last iBook Update. Still Runs strong and trouble free. Only the battery’s juice doesn’t stay up for 6 hours anymore, It’s Like 4 now.
I used Powerbooks for years and finally got tired of all the spinning beach balls. I got a Mac Pro tower (four cores) in July and I am hooked. It’s wonderful with three monitors.