Air outsells MacBook, iMac, Pro; sold out in Boston, NY, SF, says report

I sorry all you guys want the MacBook Air to fail so badly, but that’s not what’s happening. Face it. The MBA has consistent been in the top ten laptops on Amazon as well.

Just by the wording of this article tells me that this is the biggest loser in Apple history. They create a small inventory and try to make people think it’s a hot item without releasing any sales figures. The AIR will be canceled in 6 months due to poor sales.

The story of the Macbook Air being sold like hot potatoes doesn’t surprise me. The ‘Air’ does make a fine companion for travelers who have tabletop Macs at home. But I’ll stick with my plan to upgrade to an Intel model in the form of a more complete ‘Macbook’. Apple is smart enough to know that ‘complete packages’ (MacBook Pro, Macbook, iMac) are better deals at this time and have been upgraded to reflect this plan.

Wow!
I can’t actually believe it…
The MacBook Air was said to bring a very poor demand:
http://www.maconair.com/macbook_air_as_lightweight_as_sales

Also the new Macbook pros must have hurt the Air’s sales…

Steve Jobs has done well to get me to switch. As a product of the Windows environment, my move to the left of the Apple adoption curve started with a 3rd gen Nano. Months later came a 5th gen iPod, followed shortly by the iPhone. Now the Air. I am loving the Air and its relative ease of use. Is there some getting used to? Yes…but a great machine. Once you’re a commodity, you have to learn to change the experience. This major change to my computing environment prompted my to start a blog at mymacair.blogspot.com

I am a total “road warrior” and I love my MBA. The screen is brilliant, keyboard rocks, wireless runs at over 150Mbps and it weighs next to nothing. Sales will only accelerate.

It’s so great to see this actually selling very well. I thought it might when every ‘Wintard’ on the planet was frothing about how it would fail. They were wrong about the iPod, too.

To d - it’s easy to claim “huge” growth percentages when growing from a relatively tiny base. It gets harder as the numbers get bigger, i.e. a move from 4% to 8% market share is a 100% gain. AAPL’s growth will inevitably slow as the economy does and consumers stop spending. It’s a fact of life that the Mac fanboys don’t want to face - PC’s are a commodity, and premium-priced commodity products don’t hold up well in a recssionary environment. AAPL can either cut prices to keep volume growth up (not likely as it will hurt margins) or accept the growth hit and sell fewer overpriced computers to the fanboys who will willingly pay for them.

The pie-in-the-sky stock price claims made here are obviously coming from people who didn’t live through the stock bubble in the late 90’s, and aren’t familiar with concepts like mean reversion or gravity.

The Air isn’t outselling the macbook or pro. But it is selling extremely well and these sales are additive….sales that Apple wouldn’t have captured with out the machine. Many are people adding a second portable due to its extreme light weight.

TC-percentage gain is on the order of 300% - a move from 1% of users to 4% of users.

“Surpisingly Strong” demand? What planet are you from? The best looking machine on the marked, the lightest, and you are surprised it is selling well! Berift of all the extras you never use anyway, just what the business traveler needs.

Is amazing that everything Apple sell is claimed to be the “switcher” device that will switch people from wintel world to MacWorld since iPod 1 4? 6? yrs ago, yet even with millions of iPOd and now air sold over the year, what is the percentage gain in computer sale worldwide? from 2% to 3? 4%?
Lets get real, this is nothing but one good looking but underspec status symbol.

This is an excellent Road-warrior machine, but inferior to other MacBooks, in my view, for the “typical user”. It’s gratifying to hear people are excited about it. It does stack up pretty nicely price-wise vs PC ultralights, like the Sony “equivalent”.

Wow! Consumers buying stuff they want without minding meaningless reviews about the Air not having enough ports that the consumer never needs for the environment in which the consumer plans to take the Air. All such reviews immediately discounted when the guy who has to lug a bunch of crap through airports on a routine basis actually sees and picks up the Air. Astounding information, what? Just saying. Long live the consumer!