“Apple Computer investors should be wary of recent supplier news suggesting a negative outlook for iPod sales, according to Piper Jaffray. ‘Our preliminary analysis of iPod unit shipment data from NPD leads us to believe that Apple is on track to meet or slightly exceed our iPod unit assumptions and be primarily in line with Street numbers,’ wrote analyst Gene Munster in a research note today. The analyst reiterated an ‘outperform’ rating on Apple with a $103 target price,” Forbes reports.
“Piper Jaffray’s preliminary forecast for March-quarter iPod sales is 9 million, based on January data points,” Forbes reports. “Separately, Citigroup upgraded Apple to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’ today on expectations that the company will start beating earnings estimates later this year. The research firm also expects Apple to complete its Intel transition some time in August.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Apple is scheduled to report their fiscal Q2 06 earnings and hold their quarterly conference call on April 19, 2006.
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Based on my initial experiments with a brand new single core MacMini (connected to my 53″ TV), Apple is gonna sell a lot of these powerful little boxes. It’s not a Quad G-5 or even a dual but it does rock and mine is totally stock. For $599 it’s a great value and lots of fun.
It would be very good news if Apple could complete the Intel transition by August. Good for Apple and good for Intel.
It would be outstanding for all of us who are waiting to buy a powerful new next-generation professional Mac.
Go Apple, Go Apple
I wish my WIFE wanted a new Mac mini as bad as I do.
I think the Solo is actually the better value. Without software optimized for a dual proc system, the Duo isn’t going to take advantage of the second core. For what I would need that for (H.264 decoding for video output) Quicktime does not take advantage of a dual core, so the speed improvement is neglidgable. Better to invest in RAM.
meSoftware doesn’t have to be optimized for a dual processor system, just open your activity monitor and see how many processes are currently running. Mine reads 63 processes. If you have another processor/core you can use one processor for your software and let the system have the other (of course YOU can’t make this choice but the system does it for you) as long as you run more than one process at a time, you will benefit from a dualprocessor system.
That said, i think the mini would do well as a media center if frontrow played nice with xvid/divx.
In other words, you lying ass dogs who don’t know squat about this stock or are short can kiss my ass.
Bought myself a shuffle, some more Apple stock and my Core Duo Mini turns up tomorrow. I’ve got all bases covered.