“Dell has slashed its notebook forecast for this year by as much as 20 percent, and Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODMs) say the vendor has been reducing its notebook orders, according to a report published Monday by CitiGroup analyst Richard Gardner,” Edward F. Moltzen reports for CRN.
Moltzen reports, “Dell had originally forecast shipping 20 million notebooks in 2007, but now the Round Rock, Texas-based PC giant is projecting that it will ship 16 million laptops, Gardner said.”
MacDailyNews Take: 16 million! Oh, the humanity! If you know someone who’s about to inflict themselves with a Dell laptop, please ask them: Why buy a Dell when Apple’s Intel-based computers will run both Mac OS X and Windows? Friends don’t let friends buy Dell PCs.
Moltzen continues, “Gardner said Dell’s lowered projection of 16 million notebooks for this year tracks higher than CitiGroup’s own forecast, according to Gardner… If the CitiGroup report bears out, it would indicate continued trouble for Dell in the PC and notebook space. During the fourth quarter, Hewlett-Packard grew its notebook shipments by 57 percent year over year. Dell’s notebook shipments, by comparison, grew by 2 percent.”
Moltzen reports, “Checks with ODMs also indicated that Apple is ‘a bright spot,’ and CitiGroup is forecasting Apple to ship between 2.6 million and 3 million MacBooks this year, in line or a little bit more than current forecasts. So far, MacBook Pro shipments have seen ‘modest’ growth on a year-over-year basis, Gardner wrote.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s notebook sales grew 65% year-over year (Q1 07 vs. Q1 06).
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UBS analyst bullish on Apple as ‘major player’ in notebook computer market – January 05, 2007
BusinessWeek: Beleaguered Dell pulling out the pink slips? – March 08, 2007
Beleaguered Dell: Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders – March 02, 2007
Beleaguered Dell’s earnings drop 33% – March 01, 2007
Beleaguered one-trick pony Dell faces unclear future – February 14, 2007
Biting words on Apple come back to haunt Dell – February 10, 2007
Dell faces investor lawsuit over ‘illegal Intel kickbacks’ – February 02, 2007
Michael Dell is no Steve Jobs – February 02, 2007
BusinessWeek: Welcome back, Michael Dell – don’t get too comfortable – February 01, 2007
Rollins out as beleaguered Dell’s CEO, replaced by Michael Dell immediately – January 31, 2007
Total eclipse of Michael Dell goes off as predicted – January 10, 2007
SEC starts formal probe of beleaguered Dell – November 16, 2006
Apple does it again: New Macbook Pros much cheaper than Dell – October 25, 2006
Dell feels the heat from Apple – October 04, 2006
The Motley Fool: ‘Intel to Dell: you guys stink’ – September 28, 2006
Beleaguered Dell’s OS-limited PC sales ‘declining rapidly below expectations’ – analyst – September 21, 2006
Fortune compares Mac vs. Dell: ‘you’ll get more for your money with Apple’ – September 11, 2006
AP: Time to think different, Apple Mac beats Dell on price, software compatibility, and more – August 23, 2006
Dell profit falls almost in half; announces informal SEC probe – August 18, 2006
Dell cannot compete with Apple’s new Mac Pro price or feature set – August 15, 2006
Bear Stearns: Apple’s new Mac Pro, Xserve pricing well below comparable Dell systems – August 09, 2006
Dell warns of earnings miss; shares plunge 15% – July 21, 2006
Survey shows big jump in consumer interest in buying Apple Mac; Dell takes steep slide – July 06, 2006
Dell warns 1Q earnings will miss mark; shares tumble – May 08, 2006
Apple passes Dell in market value – May 02, 2006
InformationWeek: Apple Mac run Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux; Dell and HP should be concerned – May 01, 2006
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Apple Mac is #1 in European education market, pushes Dell down into second place – February 03, 2006
Steve Jobs emails Apple team: Michael Dell not the best prognosticator, Apple worth more than Dell – January 16, 2006
Fortune: Michael Dell reiterates he’d love to sell Apple’s Mac OS X if only Jobs would license – January 22, 2007
PC box assemblers like Dell and others wish Apple would license Mac OS X – August 31, 2006
Michael Dell say’s he’d be happy to sell Apple’s Mac OS X if Steve Jobs decides to license – June 16, 2005
Fortune: PC makers realize Mac OS X is superior to Windows, they’re wooing Steve Jobs for licenses – May 26, 2005
Quick! Somebody graph when Dell’s waning laptop sales intersect with Apple’s waxing laptop numbers. We can start a pool.
THE only real reason I see out there of why crap such as Dell or Gateway sell is if a person doesn’t realize the difference of a Mac OS versus Winblows OS and goes by the hardware only. As much as we think it is a great deal for a MacBook (and by Apple’s high standards it is), someone looking at a 13″ screen on “this one” versus a 15″ screen on the others for the same dollar cost… well we know that is 16 million Dell versus about 3 million Apple laptops projected. OI think many Apple fans would like the MacBook to offer a 15″ model for about the price of the current black MacBook (~$1500).
65% YOY growth = modest
Give that guy the understater of the year award.
I love it every time my MDN Live Bookmark headline starts with “beleaguered”. It’s always a promise of good news. But hey, where was the ‘give the you-know-what back to you-know-whom’ take from MDN?
Dijonaise,
I believe that the article says the MacBook PRO had modest growth. The MacBook had stellar growth.
Since June 6th, 2005, DELL’s stock has dropped almost 50%. Why did I say since June 6th? That was when Apple announced the move to Intel.
buy a MAC, you’ll be back,
buy a Dell, and go to hell.
Had I the money, I would certainly replace my Powerbook with one of those brand-spanking new MBPs to contribute to their modest growth. Sadly, that is not currently the case, and my Powerbook’s a year old. The one thing I wish is that the MBP had the magnetic latches of the MB. Those things are just so damn cool! No latches to snap off (like my current broken PB latch=\ ).
I reckon that heaping servings of crow are on the menu at the Dell cafeteria. Umm, umm, good!
Come on now! You’re slipping!
I’ll help you out…
Give us an S, an I, a D! Give us an A, a G, a T! Give us an M, a B, a T, another T, an S! What’s that stand for?!
Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders!
Mmmmmm, crow ! ! !
Sounds Dell-icious!
Does it come with a side of scare?
Given the numbers that I am seeing, while the percent of computers sold by Apple is still low, it would be very interesting to see Apple and the others ranked by computers in the mid and upper price range.
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Let the blood of the infidels fall from the sky like rain.
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Either you have some really tired fingers (from all that typing)
or youre really adept at Copy / Paste ! ..
I cannot stand the trite and caddy commentary of the “MacDailyNewsTake”. Its lucky you have decent content on your site. Its like having to listen to a valley girl who, unfortunately for me, has something I want to know.
True story: As high school tech support, I had a conversation with a teacher and it went something like this:
Teacher: “The two computers in the teachers room, there’s the Apple one and the good one, I can’t seem to get the good one to work”
Me: “Did you try the Apple?”
Teacher: “No, I wanted to use the good computer”
Me: “But you couldn’t get it to work?”
Teacher: “No”
Me: “So why didn’t you try the Apple?”
Teacher: “Because I wanted to use the good computer”
Me: “Well, it stands to reason that the computer that works would be the good one, right?”
Teacher: “Yeah, but the Apple is the only one working and I don’t know how to use it. Plus I need to use MS Word”
Me: “The Apple has MS Word and works better than the PC. You are going to have to use that one for now”
Teacher: “I’ll just go home for now, and try again tomorrow”
Apple = eMac
“Good one” = Dell
Let’s see; Dell ships 16 million notebooks in a bad year. Apple ships 3 million in a good year. And Dell is “Beleaguered”?
LOL! LOL! LOL!
The Reality Distortion Field is running at full strength and the Kupertino KoolAid flows freely here!
@ Reality Check
Of course you know it’s all about which way the stats are trending. And more importantly, how much actual *money is being made. Apple is making a tidy profit on it’s sales, while Dell’s sliver-thin margins offer plenty of revenue but little in the way of earnings. What do you cut when you have shaven everything so thin you can see through it?
The answer?
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(hereafter pronounced: Issy Dag Tim Bits)
-c
why is it that nearly every message board of any kind has a guy named reality check?
…and he is always the one posting from another universe?
MDN magic word, “made” that guy made me laugh…..
Reality Check:
The mainstream US magazine BusinessWeek has declared Dell “beleaguered”.
Now I’m waiting for the “wired” cover!
ISIDAGTMBTTS Issy Dag Tim Bits
Mmmmm. Tim Bits. Mmmmmmm.
(Tim Horton was a famous Canadian Hockey Player who achieved stardom by perfecting the donut hole in myriad flavours and selling them as ‘Tim Bits’. America should be so lucky. Winchells and Krispy Creme are pathetic in comparison, sorry.)
Dell is now worth under $50 billion. Microsoft has lost over $40 billion of it´s market value. I bredict that soon Microsoft will be worth only $200 billion. That I call justice especially when Apple is heading to $100 billion.
Mmmm, Canadian donuts….
thetic ruin…. You seem to forget… Dunkin’ Donuts has hhad the Dunkin’ Munchkins (donut holes in multiple flavors) for over 30 YEARS!
Sorry…. This is NOT innovation… I agree, Winchells sux & Krispy Kreme is way overrated!
Tim Hortons just moved into New England… We’ll see how it does in Dunkins backyard….
It’s hard t beat Dunkin Donuts coffee, rated by Consumer Reports as the BEST year over year!
Fuck market share, Apple has enough to survive and to make a massive profit. Dell have a far larger share and are struggling when they lose even the tiniest amount, it shows how flimsy their business is.