Bank of America Securities: Mac installed base estimated at 22 million pre-Leopard

Apple Insider ^ | 3/2/2007 | by Slash Lane

[Swordmaker]

22 Million OS X Macs... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[TheStickman]

1, 6 day old macbook here

[LibFreeOrDie]

I'm holding off buying a Mac, waiting for Leopard, and so are several software developers I work with. The software guys work with MS stuff all day. They want to buy Macs for themselves.

[Swordmaker]

Mac installed base... Ping.

[Sundog]

Ordered a new one today, the 3.0Ghz.

[martin_fierro]

"We believe that Leopard will sell for around $129."

Stick with the iTunes pricing model & make it $99.99!

[Richard Kimball]

Is Leopard going to be Intel based only, or will it do G4/G5? I'd like to upgrade to a new model, but the old one's cruising along, and I might just do an OS upgrade for another year or so, if it's an option.

[George W. Bush]

Universal Binary so both Intel and G4/G5.

[Richard Kimball]

Cool. Thanks.

[Swordmaker]

Is Leopard going to be Intel based only, or will it do G4/G5? I'd like to upgrade to a new model, but the old one's cruising along, and I might just do an OS upgrade for another year or so, if it's an option.

Leopard is both PowerPC and Intel.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

My sister has an imac with tiger. Will she be able to upgrade?

[George W. Bush]

Yes. Either iMac G4/G5 or an Intel iMac will be supported.

[ShawTaylor]

"Mac installed base estimated at 22 million pre-Leopard "


Well, there are now 665 million copies of XP installed worldwide, giving it 74.3% share of the PC installed base. Other versions of Windows account for another 190 million units, or 21.6% share.
They two are not even on the same planet.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/01/29/vista-windows-reviews_tech-cz_dl_0129vistareview.html

[Not gonna take it anymore]

thanks

[Yardstick]

I'm shopping around for my first Mac, probably a "pre-owned" dual 1GHz G4. I plan to use it as a digital recording studio.

[Sundog]

You could probably get that much power in a Mac Book, Mac Mini, or an IMac. If you already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse, the Mini can get data to an external firewire drive at a good speed. The difference in the two models is really the burner, the higher priced one can burn DVDs. I've lived through all their architecture changes, and my small tip would be to go with an Intel Mac.

[furquhart]

I'd second that.

Actually, I bought a MacBook Pro tonight. Don't need it, though.

Went to Best Buy and found one (open box) for $999.99. I assume it was mis-priced somehow, or something. I immediately put it up on Craigslist. Already sale pending.

Now, I'm trying to decide if I want to use the cash to buy either an LCD TV (I was actually at Best Buy shopping for an LCD TV in the first place), an X-Box 360, or a MacBook (I already have a desktop replacement class PC, but I'm looking for a new portable to replace my aging G3 iBook and - yes, Powerbook 1400).

[furquhart]

Though, I wonder what they include in those numbers.

I've got an SE/30 which I fire up sometimes, running System 6-something. Does that count?

And I've got a Powerbook 1400cs, which I've got sitting on my kitchern table, too.

I've also got a box of parts which, put together, probably adds up to a Lombard.

[rxgalfl]

Make that 2,000,0001 :)