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Wed, Nov 19, 2008 - 06:56 PM EST  —  AAPL: 86.29 (-3.62, -4.03%)  |  NASDAQ: 1386.42 (-96.85, -6.53%)

Piper Jaffray: Apple’s holiday Mac sales expected to be up 43-percent year-over-year
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 05:20 PM EST

"Apple later this month is expected to announce fiscal first quarter revenues of nearly $10 billion for the three-month period ending December, fueled largely by the ongoing resurgence of the company's personal computer business, according to one Wall Street analyst," Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.

"In a research note issued to clients Monday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster downplayed concerns surrounding Apple's retail channels, saying he expects the company to announce record first quarter sales of approximately 2.3 million Macs," Lane reports.

"He noted that data from market research firm NPD for the first two months of the December quarter indicates that Mac sales growth was up some 60 percent year-over-year. Figuring conservatively, the analyst said sales of 2.3 million Macs would indicate growth of 43 percent year-over-year compared to 28 percent yearly growth during the same quarter last year," Lane reports.

More in the full article, including iPod and iPhone information, here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Fred Mertz" and "Too Hot!" for the heads up.]

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Jan 14, 08 - 05:34 pm Comment from: Woody

I wish I could attain 60 percent year-over-year growth.

Jan 14, 08 - 05:44 pm Comment from: MegaMe

Woody,

Be careful what you wish for.

After three years you would be up to 5 inches.

Jan 14, 08 - 05:44 pm Comment from: @woody

Check your weight.

wink

Jan 14, 08 - 05:51 pm Comment from: Woody

@MegaMe:
Yeah, but by the time I reach puberty...whoa

Jan 14, 08 - 06:01 pm Comment from: pzarker

@Woody

you set yourself up at first, but you had a flawless recovery.

mdn word: she... hmmm.

Jan 14, 08 - 06:04 pm Comment from: What This Means

For anyone looking for any significant improvement in the Mac line up, with increased sales like this - you can forget about it.

Except for some mostly useless ultra thin MacBookAir or somesuch, you are not going to get a performance breakthrough with MacPro or a decent iMac.

Too bad - just wonder what might have been.

Jan 14, 08 - 06:10 pm Comment from: Steve516

I'd really like a MacPro light. I have two flat panels already... I don't want to buy another... and at $2300, the macpro is pricey for me. Well, perhaps I will have to get a 24" iMac instead, once the penryns come out in it.

Jan 14, 08 - 06:12 pm Comment from: rwinters

I plan on helping Apple's growth if I see a laptop at SF MacWorld that I can't live without. They are certainly on a roll.

Jan 14, 08 - 06:14 pm Comment from: G Spank

What this means is that someone here needs to take a break from the pipe.

Jan 14, 08 - 06:16 pm Comment from: R2

http://www.macbookair.com

Jan 14, 08 - 06:19 pm Comment from: makemineamac

R2. Very interesting. Good catch. There is indeed something in the air....

Jan 14, 08 - 06:20 pm Comment from: shen

"For anyone looking for any significant improvement in the Mac line up, with increased sales like this - you can forget about it."

i am sure you have some sort of twisted logic for this, but i am glad you spared us....

Jan 14, 08 - 06:31 pm Comment from: dallas

@R2

That is funny. I bet Steve jobs makes a joke about it at MacWorld

Jan 14, 08 - 06:51 pm Comment from: R2

I hope that "keynote leak" is also apart of Steve Job's big joke.

Jan 14, 08 - 06:59 pm Comment from: HotinPlaya

@R2
What a find!

I almost missed the complete URL from your link

http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday?

Is that a tease , or what!

Jan 14, 08 - 07:24 pm Comment from: January 24, 1984

Pretty exciting...like Christmas eve when you were eight.

The SteveNote.

Should have gone to 'frisco.

Jan 14, 08 - 08:17 pm Comment from: macbones

"Except for some mostly useless ultra thin MacBookAir or somesuch, you are not going to get a performance breakthrough with MacPro or a decent iMac."

Well, I think the current Macpros pretty much ROCK. What more would someone want? Even backing down to the single quad core it is a great machine.

When has Apple rested on their laurels in the past 5 years? Like someone on the top is going to say, "yeah, we innovated our way to 43% growth, now we can start to suck?"

Jan 14, 08 - 08:25 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Pretty exciting...like Christmas eve when you were eight."

Except without the diesel smoke and the impossible promises?

Jan 14, 08 - 09:34 pm Comment from: Mandy

Fred Thompson for President!

Jan 14, 08 - 10:24 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Ampar

And you don't get tied to the piano or hung upside down and mommy doesn't sing so loud and sometimes you can come out of the cellar and see the sun.


...


what?

Jan 14, 08 - 10:50 pm Comment from: LinuxGuyAndMacProdigalSon

Keep in mind that memory prices, both RAM and flash, have collapsed. The semiconductor companies boosted production to meet the increased anticipated demand for new computers designed to run the bloatware called "Vista." The increased unit sales for Macs go hand in hand with spectacular margins on those sales.

The January 22 guidance call with Apple executives will be a jaw dropper for the analyst/pundit armies.

Jan 14, 08 - 11:27 pm Comment from: DogGone

C1 - you had the same mother?!?!

Jan 15, 08 - 07:53 am Comment from: January 24, 1984

'Twas the night before SteveNote,
and all through the web,
Not a feature was stirring,
All asleep under threats......

Jan 15, 08 - 09:33 am Comment from: Ampar

C1: And don't forget that the "finger" sandwiches are for the guests.




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