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.
