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.
[Silicon Alley Business Journal, AppleInsider]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
11 responses to “Apple Sold 1M MacBook Airs –Nearly Half of All Notebooks — Dec. Quarter”
apple is creating records as always
Only sales records for itself. I’m sure the Windows fanbois will undoubtedly say that Dell or HP or Acer sold millions and millions more notebooks than Apple and reiterate that Apple’s market share is extremely tiny in comparison to the mighty Wintel empire and that Apple will be out of business as soon as consumers come to their senses.
The photos at the top of this article are of the original, 2008 MacBook Air.
Never much used the optical drive on my MacBook Pro, may have used FireWire once and never used the backlit keyboard; my iPad wasn’t really ready for work, so I sold them both and bought my 13-inch ultimate MBA. Never a moment’s regret.
it’s an expensive “netbook” and can’t do more than the cheapest asus! i have enough of apple “eye candies”, ashamed to be called as apple fanboy or steve sheep each time they people see the apple sign on my severe over heating macbook pro! a primitive computer not worth of money it costs!
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