financial/investor
01/12/2005, 4:55pm, EST
Wednesday, January 12th
Apple sees higher iMac, iBook, music sales
In its December quarter, Apple said it shipped more than 456,000 iMac G5s, representing a sequential increase in unit sales of nearly 100 percent and a year-over-year increase of 101 percent. The company also saw a large year-over-year increase in its iBook sales, selling more than 270,000 units or 35 percent more units than the year-ago quarter. Apple's PowerBook line, however, saw a drastic decrease in sales with only 152,000 units shipped. Apple shipped 167,000 Power Mac and Xserve units, a 19% decrease from the year-ago quarter. Overall, Apple saw a 26 percent increase from the year-ago quarter in Mac sales. Apple also saw a large 525 percent increase from the year-ago quarter its Music-related products, which includes iTunes Music Store sales and iPod related services and accessories.
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This is a cause for celebration. Good work!
We need cheaper G5 PMs, faster iBooks, and a G5 Powerbook.
How about dropping the 2.5GHz G5 down to $2500 for starters? I'd buy one.
"Re" "furbished"
Seriously, those numbers say loud and clear that Apple is overdue for an upgrade to those models. We won't get a G5 Powerbook this soon (think summer), but as they say on another forum, "3GHz ... the clock is still ticking, Steve ..."
(or am I mixing up something?)
sales like they used to is there are die-hards like
me with sawtooth G4's waiting for a speed bump and a
refurb price to make it worthwhile.
Still others like my sister-in-law got the iMac G5
and was quite pleased with it.
My wife got the last new computer and this was just
prior to the iMac G5 being released, but she likes the
lamp style iMac.
Frankly, when the opportunity for a G5 2.5 tower
comes out that I can afford I'll jump on it, but
I need to get re-employed first.
I say, if you need/want it today, buy it. Then when you want a PB G5, sell the old one, and buy a new one.