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Apple posts profit of $14 million, $0.04 eps

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Apple today posted a net profit of $14 million, or $.04 per diluted share for its fiscal 2003 second quarter ending March 29, 2003. These results compare to a net profit of $40 million, or $.11 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenues for the quarter were $1.475 billion, down 1 percent from the year-ago quarter, and gross margins were 28.3 percent, up from 27.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 47 percent of the quarter's revenues. Apple said it shipped 711,000 Macs during the quarter: "Our 'year of the notebook' is off to a great start, led by the incredible demand for our new aluminum 12-inch and 17-inch PowerBook G4s...This quarter over 40 percent of the Macs we shipped were notebooks -- our highest percentage ever and well ahead of the industry average." Analysts had expected a profit of $0.02 per share.

Apple said it hit its revenue target for the second quarter while maintaining channel inventories under 4.5 weeks: "Continued strong asset management enabled us to increase cash to over $4.5 billion. Looking ahead to the third quarter of 2003, we expect revenue to be relatively flat with the March quarter and expect a slight profit for the quarter," said Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO.

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711,000?!?

That's it? That's a terrible number. They need to move a lot more units out the door.

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& snip a few bonuses...

...like Stevo's from $77m? to under that $22m mark & we DOUBLE Apple's profit to $0.08/share...

Doh!

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all apple's profits...

...are belong to Steve

Sorry, couldn't resist. Bring on the 970s and clean up the USB panics, and we'll be fine.

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Steve Bonus

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Steve's Bonus

Sorry about that short message -- enter key is awfully badly placed I guess.

I agree with earlier message about snipping steve's bonuses -- Its obscene that anyone ceo enjoys a yearly remuneration that is higher than the companies profit for the year. Particularily when it is so out of line with what remunerations are for other larger companies.

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711,000

. . . just think how big that number would have been if they could ship some stuff - like 17"s?

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whhhhhhhoooooo

makey money = good

how's gateway's numbers?

They do have machines with more megahertz U KNOW?!

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well...

Lets see Notebooks go up...

iMacs way down. no wonder its 40%....

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how many 17" PB shipped

I wonder how many units shipped for 17" PB

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Re: How many 17" PBs

14,000 through the end of Apple's 2nd quarter.

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year of the notebook?

Their notebooks are taking greater share of sales because the desktops suck so bad. When they get chip performance back on track I'm sure we'll see things swing back somewhat. Right now the PowerBooks are the only machines worth buying. (And they're mighty fine machines, too.)

Ditto comments about Steve's bonuses.... Arrgh.

-Another irked shareholder

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if you are so irked

buy some gateway stock.

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stop with the gateway...

>how's gateway's numbers?
>They do have machines with more megahertz U KNOW?!

>buy some gateway stock.

Man, why compare to others? Focus on Apple. As soon as you open the doors by comparing to one PC manufacturer (in this case, a loser), you invite comparison to Dell etc who all kicks Apple's a**.

Dumbass.

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I hope

I hope you were signing off by telling us your name is Dumbass. Others think again.

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Profits.

For a company that's been investing huge amounts
of money into R & D, this is really good.

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Jobs' Bonus & Profits

I agree about the Jobs bonus comments: A $77 MILLION dollar bonus is obscene for a company that is posting back-to-back quarter LOSSES. But, aren't you forgetting something else? READ THIS TO GET EVEN MORE UPSET:http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5152110.htm
I love Apple and I love my Macs (but hate peeling-paint Titanium problems -- and I've had that problem on EVERY system) but I'm beginning to think that someone else should take over, someone with more business motivation versus financial motivation. I think Jobs is a visionary, but it seems clear to me that he puts his own welfare ahead of the company's welfare. Read the article.

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LINK

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5152110.htm

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okay...

> For a company that's been investing huge amounts
of money into R & D, this is really good.

This is like saying: we suck but we have a good reason for it.

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Faster faster pussycat!

>They do have machines with more megahertz U KNOW?!

Yeah, and we seem to be the only people who love to have slower CPUs and love to defend it!

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Unit Numbers

Sheesh, those unit numbers sre way pathetic. They also show that the margins on laptops are HUGE; that shows an anemic profit (they even bragged about cost containment).

If you look beyond all the touchy feely c***, this is NOT by any stretch of the imagination a very rosy picture. 156k towers in a quarter???

And I do not expect the 970 to really solve anything; it's strictly a chio they SHOULD switch to for 2-4 years down the road. The first few rounds of machines will NOT perform near as great as a lot expect.

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PowerMac

Apple sold 156,000 units of PowerMac in Q2, I'm one of them and very happy with the machine. Can't wait for the even powerful 970 system... good news they did good on the software side too.

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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) has never made any offer to invest in or acquire a major music company.

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unit numbers

Yes, the unit numbers aren't great. But it's good that they can make a profit given a struggling economy and unimpressive towers. The 970 *will* make a big difference, all indications are that there's lots of pent up demand. Even if they aren't as fast as "expected", whatever that means, simply getting past the G4 speed limit will be a huge benefit.

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PowerMac sales down again

If you read the coverage over at MacInTouch, they point out that quarterly powermac sales were down 26% year-over-year. I don't buy the QuarkExpress excuse. Seems to me that Apple's strategy of being super-dodgy about the timing of future upgrades is killing them. Everyone expects Apple to spring PowerPC 970's or G5's or something else on everyone at the next big trade show, so they hold off as long as possible before buying anything. The combination of Steve's ego and his $0.04 per share bonus is bad for this stock.

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Steve Jobs

It's about time Steve got some money. For the past few years his salery was $1. Quit bitching already.

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711,000 Units shipped

IDC will release figures within a week or two on worldwide PC sales for the second quarter. Last quarter, Apple shipped 743,000 Macs when a total of 38.4 million PCs were shipped worldwide according to IDC. That made Apple's marketshare last quarter a pathetic 1.93%. If you count desktops, Apple's marketshare was 1.51%.

I wonder what marketshare 743,000 units will be this quarter since their sales were down from a year ago and PC sales continue to rise.

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Intel to begin shipping

Well once again the delays on the 800MHz bus motherbooard were hyped by Mac fanatics as Arstechnica reports that they will begin shipping next week. This new motherboard provides a theoritical memory throughput of 6.4GB/sec, the same as the PPC970. Preliminary tests on various hardware sides show that in reality it is close to pushing 5GB/sec.

The current G4's were use have a 167MHz bus and atheoritical max throughout of 1.3GB/sec. Tests on various sites indicate that in reality the G4 achieves about 1GB/sec for common code. So the Pentium is five times faster at memory tasks.

What's funny is Intel's busses are clocked higher than Apple's processors.

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No-brainer

You'd have to be a fool, a rich person with money to burn or a fanatic to buy a Mac in this economy with what Apple offers. PC's are simply to much better these days it's crazy. I know former Mac users who built $400 Athlon boxes that kicked their dual 1GHZ-1.25GHZ G4's asses at everything.

It's sad. Lets hope the PPC970 brings parity because Intel's already matched its bus.

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PC Sales rise?

Get a clue, moron. The whole PC industry is in a slump. Sales are flat or down from last year. Not up.

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And their stock..

... will probably continue to drop ... even though they beat analysts prediction by 100%!!!

If they come out with 970's in July (actually ship), watch the volume go up! I've been waiting forever ... (and forever is a long time!)

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What's the point?

If you think a PC is better, go buy one and stop posting here. Why do you even waste your time.

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re: And their stock

It keeps going down, down, down.

They will have an Incredible future if:
- 970's across the product line by end of year (ain't gonna happen)
- Add USB 2 to the line (possibly)
- Boost Graphics chip across the line (proabably)
- new iPod that plays MPeg4 / Quicktime .. Audio and Video versions
- Tablet PC (Basically a chopped down ibook with detachable usb keyboard.

They don't usually get the 'services' right so not sure how the 'music' thing will do ... .mac as well.

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apple profit

The company is trying again for home runs and not solid base on base singles..with the occasional long ball. The Imacs are ugly and too different. The G4 desktops, nothing new or great and with all the complaints from owners about fan noise etc, who would buy? but the powerbooks and ibooks ...so cool and worth it, but forget the jumbo17", the 15.2" is so right, even the upcoming 15.4" is still the way to go.

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PC sales rise

Actually, PC sales are rising, lower than before but nevertheless, still rising. PC sales for the last quarter were up 2%, Apple sales were down 4%.

So yes, the PC slaes are rising and Apple sales are falling.

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Ha! Ha!

Don't you Apple haters get it? Apple will never go under. They make the best computers in the world. Why do you love to talk about Apple so much if you can't stand them?

Suckers!

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Re: Intel

Well once again the delays on the 800MHz bus motherbooard ...

Well, and once again Intel's hype about a 800MHz motherboard have apparently taken hold. Its not 800MHz. Its a 200MHz motherboard. Multiply that by 4 for the Quad-rate ram, and you get 800MHz. Its "Intel math". If you want to call it '800MHz effective speed", that might be OK. But there's so much c*** out there from people who think that somehow Apple is like 4x behind on Motherboard architecture (and if they could get a chip that could actually use double or quad pumped RAM, which the G4 cannot, then maybe they could tout their 800MHz busses and all).

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Freaks

I swear, a little good news and you people turn it into c***. Shouldn't you all be running computer companies or something? You're all so brilliant.

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Re: Powermac sales

seems to me that Apple's strategy of being super-dodgy about the timing of future upgrades is killing them. Everyone expects Apple to spring PowerPC 970's or G5's or something else on everyone at the next big trade show, so they hold off as long as possible before buying anything.

I guess no one hear pays attention to the world around them. Well, for those too caught up on how badly Safari renders their p*** sites then checking out current events and such, you may have missed that the creator of the first 'portable' computer, a guy named Osbourne (maybe you've heard of the company), passed away a couple of weeks ago. I bring this up because along with the Obit on the guy, they mentioned how his company basically failed. "How?" the intelligent of you ask. By pre-announcing his great new machine well before they were available. And what happened? Well, everyone stopped buying their current computer for the 'next big thing' and the loss of a revenue stream basically drove the company under.

As for Apple, what could they gain from announcing any plans prior to their being ready. They already get creamed from you all when they announce stuff at a MacWorld and say it won't be available for a couple of months. How do you think the critics would deal with a 6 month away announcement?

But let's say they came out and said "We'll be delivering 970 systems in September". And then delays occur at IBM over the chip, or the production chips don't work as expected with the motherboard designs. Or there are other issues with the entire system? Can you imagine the criticism when apple then announces in August that the new systems would be delayed until January? On the other hand, Apple could play it safe and just announce now that 970 systems would be released at MWSF, but if they're ready early, are they supposed to sit on them? Or release them early? Releasing early sounds fine, except Apple got criticized for coming out with the TiBook with DVD drive less than two months after releasing an update to the TiBook, with new owners whining about how Apple 'fooled' them into buying a machine they expected not to be updated any time soon. (h***, they announced updates last October/November to the TiBooks, then came out with the 12 and 17" models, and got criticized for that). So, the only way this works is if they can plan for all contigencies and know exactly when some new technology will be complete and ready for sale 6 moths to a year before hand.

So, from what I can tell, people want Apple to come out with super-fast stuff, telling us before hand so we can make informed decisions, and then not to change the schedule after we buy one so we don't feel like we just got screwed. Yea, I can't believe Apple hasn't implemented that policy yet.

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Mac fanatics

SO WHAT IF THE 800MHz BOARD IS QUAN-PUMPED? You do realize how hypocritical and silly you are being when:
1. The G4 doesn't even have a 200MHz yet
2. The PPC970 is a double-pumped 450MHz bus
3. Apple advertises it's G4 machines utilizing DDR misleading the public.

The fact is, the Intel board sustains over 5GB/sec while the top-of-the-line G4 at $3000 can barely push 1GB/sec. What's worse is that Apple's dual machines have to share that pathetic 167MHz bus. None of Intel's Xeon processors share a bus--they have their own independent busses.

I'll have Intel's math thank-you-very-much.

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Re: Freaks

I know how to run Apple. Its simple. First, dump the Power PC and go with Intel! That's obvious. Why? Because you can never be killed on MHz again (don't waste your breath about AMD. It, like the 970, may be better than the Pentium 4, but they don't run at the same MHz speed, and everyone here knows that MHz is the only important fact that determines a computer's worth). Second, dump OS X. Its slow and crappy. Its too far ahead of its time, and no one likes that (why is the windowing so slow? Easy, Apple dumped their old drawing system for a lousy next-generation system that doesn't have optimazations written for it on the graphics card like good ol' QuickDraw did!). Its too non-standard. Dump OS 9 too, as its out-dated technology and such a hodgepodge of hacks that its completely unstable. In fact, dump the entire software side of the company. Contract out the whole thing to a third-party company. Microsoft comes to mind. They already have a working OS (that runs on Intel chips, too), and runs most of the software out there (why force your customers to pay more for their software?). Just use Windows. (Plus, if you standardize on that, you get a great deal on the software. Not to mention the deals to get Office installed on every machine. Its like MS is giving the stuff away). Then, dump some of your quality parts for more commodity stuff, maybe put in slower Hard drives, or have the CPU control more of the motherboard stuff (like the modem, USB controller, hard disk access, etc) to reduce the need for specialized ASICs. Buy components from the cheapest vendor each week. Sure, maybe a customer who buys 6 computers might get six different CD drives and two different video cards, but who cares. Also, get rid of the fancy cases and the colors. People do NOT want to buy colorful computers, because they don't want to have to explain why they bought a lime green computer. They don't want to differentiate themselves from their co-workers. They want beige or black or white boxes. Identical in look. Maybe a little stylish, but not too much so. Lastly, get rid of the retail stores (or keep them, but lose the inventory - when you sell a customer, have them place the order and they can receive to their home within a couple of weeks). Sell your computers solely on-line, at first. Then go and start hawking them on infomercials and QVC.

Follow these steps, and Apple will become THE computer maker again. Or they'll become Gateway.

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Re: Mac fanatics

SO WHAT IF THE 800MHz BOARD IS QUAN-PUMPED? You do realize how hypocritical and silly you are being when:
1. The G4 doesn't even have a 200MHz yet
2. The PPC970 is a double-pumped 450MHz bus
3. Apple advertises it's G4 machines utilizing DDR misleading the public.

How in the h*** is my comments hypocritical???? I never said that the 970 had a true 900MHz bus. I never said the G4s had a 200MHz bus. In fact, I never said that Apple's machines were actually as fast as Intels, nor said much of anything about Macs. I'm just point out a fact. Its NOT a 800MHz bus, no matter what c*** you all spiel.

As for your DDR ram comment, it also is a fallacy. Apple says they use DDR RAM. They're not claiming to use it to its full potential (in fact, they state clearly what the sustained rates are. But I guess you're just one of those anti-mac bigots who'll crow about the new fast Intel motherboards, with features like 8x AGP, or having ATA/133, which, if Apple included, you'd be blasting them for the fact that no hard drives can fully flood an ATA/100 bus, let alone a 133 one, or that no video cards take advantage of 8x AGP.

The fact is, the Intel board sustains over 5GB/sec while the top-of-the-line G4 at $3000 can barely push 1GB/sec. What's worse is that Apple's dual machines have to share that pathetic 167MHz bus. None of Intel's Xeon processors share a bus--they have their own independent busses.

I'll have Intel's math thank-you-very-much.

You want Intel's machines, fine. And I gues you like their 'math', so you'd have no problem if you bought a 3GHz processor only to find it was a speed bumped 2GHz processor (as some low-cost PC makers are known to do), or that your computer supposedly has 512MB RAM, but really only has 128MB, but they're using VM (hey, and maybe RAM doubler) to make it 512MB. Me, I'd just like it if they reported the facts and let the user decide, rather than fudge their numbers for marketing departments and people with small minds.

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So...

> As for your DDR ram comment, it also is a fallacy. Apple says they use DDR RAM. They're not claiming to use it to its full potential.

So.... when Intel does it, you call it Intel math but when Apple does it, you defend Apple. Yeah, you just shot your credibility.

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Here's the real deal

I've owned several PC's over the years and recently purchased an iMac. Why? Because the software I use runs much better on the Mac!!!

My PC is definitely faster at certain tasks, but it blue screens too much to be productive with. Also Windows XP is a dog.

My iMac has only crashed once in the four months that I've had it. Certain tasks may be slower but the system (overall) is much more usable and *useful* because of the operating system.

OS X is fantastic - the disk I/O performance blows the PC away.

While a faster processor would be great, it's not an absolute necessity.

To me the ultimate "PC" would be the speed of the Intel H/W with the stability, usability, and performance of OS X.

BTW, I'm selling my PC :)

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Here's the real deal

I've owned several Macs over the years and recently purchased a PC. Why? Because the software I use runs much better on the PC!!

My Mac is definitely nicer at certain tasks, but it beachballs too much to be productive with. Also OS X is a dog.

My PC has only crashed once in the four months that I've had it. Certain tasks may be a pain but the system (overall) is much more usable and *useful* because of the operating system and fast hardware.

XP is fantastic - the disk I/O performance blows the OS X away partly because I have a faster hard drive.

While a prettier GUI would be great, it's not an absolute necessity, although I can get nice themes for XP.

To me the ultimate "Mac" would be the speed of the Intel H/W with the stability, usability, and performance of XP.

BTW, I'm selling my Mac :)

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1GB/sec

What's faster?

1 GB/sec

or

5 GB/sec

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PS
Whoever made the comment about a 2GHz CPU "speedbumped" to 3GHz is an absolute moron.

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Well I 'switched'...

...or at least traded a used Pismo 400 for a new Toshiba 1.8ghz XP PC (same $)...

My experience with the PC has been so positive that I can recommend them now - many things seem easier & more intuitive than MacOS...

It certainly seems faster, doesn't crash, peripherals are sooo much less (& available) & the software works very well...

Apple would appear to have a lot of work to do...

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Re: Well I 'switched'

Me too.

From a Dell Dimension tower to a new 1GHz iMac.

The experience is so much better. Everything is more consistent, easier to understand and the damn thing just works. It doesn't crash like XP, apps crash less because everything is just much less "hacked together". Software fits hardware and vice-versa.

No way I'd ever go back to a PC. I encourage everybody to switch. Going from XP to Linux is a godsend. Going to Mac OS X is even better. :thumbsup:

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Overseas Biz

i think that the interesting thing about this is the percentage of Apple's income which is derived from overseas business. As a non-US Citizen (I have no problem with the US - I work for an American company and have many close friends there) a lot of people have flamed me when I took offence at their comments that overseas Apple customers should pretty much just get what they are given (I.E. A lack of iPhoto Books), and that Apple's overseas biz didn't matter. This clearly proves that in difficult economic times such as these, every single unit sold counts. My industry is going through the same issues and it's reassuring that we can fall back on non US sales too. I think Apple could do more outside the US to promote it's products (where are the OSX ads?) and given that Export sales accounted for just under half of total sales they should capitalise on that. As far as the earnings go I agree - Jobs' $77M would have been better off spent on the company. He has enough money - Can he not live without it for a year? It sets a very poor example to the markets....

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PowerMacs

We wanted to replace an old G3 beige with a PowerMac G4 OS-9 bootable since we still rely on older software which hasn't been ported to OS X yet (very specific stuff in addition to, you name it, Quark). Since OS 9 bootable Macs are no longer available or too expensive, the financial department refused to purchase a new unit. It might be a while before we buy any new G4.

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PC'S Faster?

If yo think PC's are so fast go to Barefeet's and see how they did against MP Macs running multiple applications. Tests using apps that don't fully utilize the duel processors make the Macs look slow. I think many people that use OS X run more than one application at a time because it handles it more smoothly than the other OS's out there.
http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html

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PC Sales

ARE NOT UP....
Look at Intel's #'s for this quarter. FLAT compared with the same period last year. Not up, not down, but FLAT.

Here;s $0.02 - buy a clue.

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Bare feats is a joke

Real benchmarks here:

http://www.geocities.com/sw_perf/

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>>As for your DDR ram comment, it also is a fallacy. Apple says they use DDR RAM. They're not claiming to use it to its full potential.

So.... when Intel does it, you call it Intel math but when Apple does it, you defend Apple. Yeah, you just shot your credibility.

Why are people so dense, I don't know. No, Intel claims an 800MHz bus, which it DOES NOT HAVE. It does not claim a 200MHz bus and Quad-data rate RAM for an effective sustained rate of 6.4 GHz/sec. An 800MHz bus is a bus that ticks off 800 million times a second. Their bus does NOT do this. They just take a couple of non-compartible numbers, multiply them, and say, "look, we're running an 800 MHz bus." They could even possibly (and that's a possibly) get by and say "Its like running an 800MHz bus using old SDRAM". But that's not really true, since you'd be able to get more non-sustained data through in that scenario than what Intel's got now, although the sustained rates would be the same.

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Whoever made the comment about a 2GHz CPU "speedbumped" to 3GHz is an absolute moron.

Actually, I'm not a moron, although I mistyped. I meant to say "overclocked".

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Intel math

Here's an example of Intel Math that some of you might actually understand, and then realize why its bogus. Imagine Apple labeling their current 'high-end' Macs a 2.8 GHz tower, which in fact is just a dual-processor machine with each chip running at 1.4GHz for a theoretical sustained rate of 2.8GHz (see, 2 chips x 1.4GHz = 2.8GHz). Do you think anyone would let Apple get away with that? No! But go from chips to motherboards (which people far less understand, apparently) and then this type of math is perfectly fine...

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800 mhz bus?

What's the deal with the so-called 800 mhz bus? Can someone explain this? What is the actual throughput on it and why is it wrong for Intel to label it as an 800 mhz bus? Thank you.

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What does this mean

I do not understand Apple make money and people are upset by this? Why is this no good?

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6.4GB/sec is a big deal

The 800MHz bus has a theoretical throughput of 6.4GB/sec. Tests at various harware sites show realworld throughput to be 5GB/sec, five times Apple's "Pro" desktops.

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It is not...

Yet they are not 5x faster...Barely 2x.

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Keep in mind that Apple's throughput is slower because less is required to do a lot of that work.

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can't please everybody

People don't want Apple making a profit, however small, because it upsets their predictions about Apple dying soon.

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PC'S Faster?

"If yo think PC's are so fast go to Barefeet's and see how they did against MP Macs running multiple applications. Tests using apps that don't fully utilize the duel processors make the Macs look slow. I think many people that use OS X run more than one application at a time because it handles it more smoothly than the other OS's out there.
http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html"

That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. They benchmark 3 applications at the same time and the HyperThreaded P4 still comes out on top and this is supposed to prove the superiority of OS X??? All that shows is that multiple processors are better than a single processor at multithreading... well duh! Try the same test on a Hyperthreaded Dual Xeon 3.06GHz and then you'll see it has nothing to do with OS X being more efficient, it's simply the fact that BareFeats tested a singleprocessor PC vs all multiprocessor Macs.

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sales

Posted: 18/04/2003 at 17:53 GMT

Dell has reclaimed its title as PC seller extraordinaire.

The Texas-based PC shop knocked Hewlett-Packard out of the top spot for worldwide PC sales in the first quarter of 2003, IDC said . The two companies have jostled for the top spot since HP acquired Compaq last year.

Overall, vendors shipped out 34.6 million PCs , which gives a 2.1 per cent rise over the same quarter last year. Laptops continued to take more of the overall market, helping Toshiba grab the number 5 ranking worldwide and in the U.S.

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