Analyst: Apple Selling More iPads than Macs

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Analyst: Apple Selling More iPads than Macs

There have been hints of heavy iPad demand, ranging from out-of-stock reports and Apple’s own admission of trouble keeping up, but now comes some hard numbers: the iPad is outselling the Mac by nearly two-to-one. The Cupertino, Calif. company is selling more than 200,000 iPads per week in the U.S. while selling about 110,000 Macs per week nationally, an analyst said Thursday. The iPad is selling almost as fast as the iPhone 3GS during its first three months.

“Checks indicate that U.S. iPad sales remain strong post-launch, driven by rising consumer visibility to iPad’s user experience, sustained PR/word-of-mouth marketing, 3G iPad launch, and broadening iPad apps/content,” RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky told clients this morning.

“We believe Apple is now selling >200k iPads/week, greater than US Macs (est. 110k Macs/week) and just below US iPhone 3GS first quart (246k/week),” Abramsky adds.

The report comes on the heals of another analyst’s projection that the Cupertino, Calif. company will have a 20 percent increase in quarterly Mac sales boosted by the released of a refreshed line of MacBook Pros. Apple reported selling 8.94 million Macs during its previous quarter.

Abramsky also pushed his worldwide iPad sales expectations for 2010 to 8 million, up from a previous 5 million sales projection. Abramsky’s projection is the most bullish so far. Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty expects more than 6 million iPads will sell this year, while Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi expects 5 million iPads will sell its first year. Earlier this month, Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. projected Apple will sell 2 million iPads for the June quarter.

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  • charli

    the new hot thing always sells hard and fast. Especially when it comes from Apple. You can bet easy money that the new iphone will sell more units than macs and even the ipad during the first month it is out. Because it is a new iphone.

  • Poppa

    What I don’t understand is why some people buy the latest computer and load it up with the latest office program, when they will only be surfing the web, social networking,music and typing the ocasional letter.
    if you are only a light computer user ,it makes sense to buy the ipad no need to be tied down to a desktop or over powered laptop unless you intend to do some serious computer work.

  • machete9236

    I also wonder why these stories about the iPad outselling the Mac, or the iPhone OS being more important than Mac OS X, keep appearing on Cult of Mac. Mac OS X and Mac sales aren’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future. It seems as though they’re trying to convince us that the Mac is a dying breed.

  • Mark

    Haha when I look at the predictions I see some really surprising figures. A country like New Zealand which has roughly 4 million inhabitants is going to sell almost twice that number of Holland that has 16 million people. On what data do these researchers base their predictions?

    Btw I have an iPad and have noticed that I use my MBP hardly any more. With a bit of training you can increase your typing speed and make it a really functional tool for more Han surfing, reading emails and replying on Twitter. Many might call the iPad a giant iPod Touch but at least one that is able to take over work load from a ‘regular’ compute.

  • http://www.howiesweb.com Howie Isaacks

    I don’t understand the point of this study. Of course the iPad is outselling the Mac. It’s a new product, and it’s a different kind of product. It’s also a less expensive product.

  • Alfred

    To quote Mark:

    “A country like New Zealand which has roughly 4 million inhabitants is going to sell almost twice that number of Holland that has 16 million people. On what data do these researchers base their predictions?”

    I would imagine they’re basing it on the number of Macs already in those countries, since a higher % of people use Macs in NZ than in the Netherlands. However, that is still a flawed way of predicting. Surely the iPad has wider appeal than a Mac (it is cheaper, after all). Also, the number of iPhones sold in each territory doesn’t correlate very well to the number of previously existing Mac owners, so why should it be so with iPad?

    I don’t see how the analysts numbers are anything but pure imagination.

  • Jonathan

    Estimated numbers = stock market theater.

    “Btw I have an iPad and have noticed that I use my MBP hardly any more.”

    LOL, funniest thing I’ve read all day….

  • Skips

    My impresssion is that the numbers are very inconsistent. The numbers in the chart are consistent with a selling rate of approximately 100,000 per week. This rate is also consistent with Apple’s annoucements. If the rate is accelerating then the estimate for sales during this quarter are too small.

  • John

    I plan to upgrade my old mini to a 2.66ghz one and buy a 16gb ipad. This will wor out cheaper than buying the MacBook pro I was considering before.
    Ipad means I don’t have to fork out for a laptop just to get a good mobile computer, but still have a full desktop for when I need it.