Apple grabs 10% of laptop market
Posted on May 13th, 2007 by Jonathan Schlaffer
iPod domination is not enough for Apple, they’re here to conquer the world and conquer it they shall. With figures just released from NPD group, sales of Mac based laptops were up for the month of March by itself but still slightly down from February.
Apple was fourth on the list for that month ahead of Compaq but behind Gateway, Toshiba and HP. For Apple a 10% share of laptop sales is certainly a good thing and hopefully it will only go up from there. Now, if they could only start competing in the price arena that would help things along.
As for the desktop market, Apple has almost 8% worth of sales but again is behind the same companies that are leading in the laptop market. AppleInsider has the full report from NPD.
That being said, I don’t know what can account for this, it simply is the wrong time to buy a new Mac, especially a laptop. With the new LED display technology due to appear on the MacBook and MacBook Pro line not to mention the inclusion of Intel’s “Santa Rosa” aka Centrino Pro platform on the laptops, why are people buying?
There is also the issue of Leopard not being released until October which even if you did manage to pick up a MacBook Pro with the Santa Rosa chips in them you would still need to wait until June which is the rumored release for the LED displays and until October for Leopard otherwise you will be a generation and a half behind. You don’t WANT to be left behind, do you? Of course not so just wait until October.
When it comes down to it none of this really means that Apple has neither an 8% share of the desktop market nor a 10% share of the laptop market, it’s just sales figures but for Apple impressive figures.
Between now and October I think sales are going to fall off as people wait for the new technologies and the release of Leopard which Apple could mitigate some by offering an “Express Upgrade” once it releases, I think someone tried that to great effect.
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