Zobby

Apple: Fraying at the Edges?

In my 20 years of using Macs, my experience is Macs run great. I still have an old G4 going full out. I still see colored imacs being heavily used as library terminals in the local university. From what I see and experience Macs are tough, much tougher than PCs.

As this is an 'investment' blog, from what I've read the Mac Book Air has also been a runaway success for Apple. Apple notebook sales are up 60+ % and the Macbook Air is playing a part in this and according to reports not cannibalizing macbook and Macbook Pro sales.

Computerworld:

""And Apple got a nice bump from the MacBook Air," he (NPD analyst Stephen Baker) added. The MacBook Air, the ultrathin laptop that was unveiled in mid-January by Apple CEO Steve Jobs but which didn't start shipping until early February, accounted for about 20% of Apple's notebook sales last month. Better still for Apple, Baker said, it appears that the new model didn't cannibalize sales of existing Apple products.

"It looks like the Air is giving Apple an incremental volume opportunity," Baker said."