“Whether that trajectory slowed or accelerated in the Christmas quarter — usually Apple’s strongest — is one of the questions that will be answered definitively next Tuesday, when the company reports its fiscal Q1 2011 earnings,” P.E.D. reports. “Meanwhile, we’ve polled three dozen analysts for their Mac unit sales predictions.”
P.E.D. reports, “There was, as usual, a sizable gap between the most optimistic estimate (4.49 million by Apple Finance Board’s Alexis Cabot) and the most pessimistic (3.6 million from UBS’s Maynard Um).”
Full article, with a chart of the breakdown between Mac desktop and notebook unit sales over the past three years, here.