Apple reportedly sold 1.1 million MacBook Air laptops during the December 2010 quarter, 63 percent above analyst expectations. The 1.1 million figure could mean MacBook Air sales represented about 40 percent of the 2.9 million notebook sales reported by the Cupertino, Calif. company for the three-month period.
The December sales numbers were 400,000 higher than the 700,000 units previously expected by Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
However, sales of the MacBook Air may be cooling off. Demand for the Air is down by around 40 percent to less than 700,000 units for the current financial quarter, according to Kuo. Apple still has a chance to record record Mac sales due to strong demand for the new family of MacBook Pro computers the tech giant announced in February.