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AppleInsider | Mac sales surge over 100 percent in January, says firm:
Sales of Apple Inc.’s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Crest Securities.

In a brief research note distributed to clients on Thursday, the firm cited NPD market research data which implies that year-over-year growth in Mac unit sales accelerated in January to 101 percent, up from 55 percent in December.

I find it interesting that Mac sales surged to this level during the same period that Microsoft introduced Vista.  For all the PR I don’t feel that Vista has capture the imagination of the general public.  For each of it’s pluses there seems to be offsetting minuses.  For example:

  • We know that Vista is more secure but perhaps at the cost of user convenience.
  • We know that Vista is visually attractive but perhaps at the cost of productivity, hardware cost, and overall speed.
  • We know that Vista has new features, but with confusion over which version (and price) a user needs to have those features.
  • We know that Vista is totally new version of Windows but doesn’t offer many more core capabilities then XP.

I don’t think it’s any secret why Vista sales are somewhat slow.  WHERE’S THE BEEF?

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