Research firm Current Analysis Incorporated has concluded that Windows Vista spurred a 67% increase in personal computer sales at U.S. retail stores in its first week (ending Saturday) on the market. In terms of units sold, Hewlett-Packard was the top PC seller and Gateway took second place. (Dell may be the world's second-largest PC maker, but the company wasn't included because it doesn't sell through stores). Microsoft began selling Vista in stores on January 30 after releasing it to some businesses on Nov. 30. Analyst Samir Bhavnani said the increase in the first week "compares very favorably" with the first week Windows XP was on sale in 2001. Kevin Kutz, Microsoft Windows client communications director, naturally said the company is "pleased with the initial response to Windows Vista."
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News source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
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$600 for AMD x2 3800+, 1 GB ram, windows vista
/Not trying to troll
mac users - just like windows users - want to get their hands on the latest and greatest.
Until Apple drops their ludicrous hardware prices to PC niveau and becomes actual competition to the PC by that - no chance. Not even remotely, regardless how good Leopard might be.
Leading up to Vista's release we sole thru all of the XP machines that we had in stock a little more than 2 weeks prior to Jan 30th. Customers would come in and would find nothing on the shelves. It was like this as our local competition as well. Customers would ask why and we would tell them of the upcoming Vista release and maybe 3 out of ten had a clue what we were talking about which shows Microsoft's overall lack of promotion. 1-2 would state that they did not want Vista and that they would stay with XP as Vista is unproven.
When machines arrived to sell on the 30th sales were good but I believe it to be based more on some pent up consumer demand as they could buy nothing for 2+ weeks rather than Vista being solely responsible. Great promotions have also helped move machines and drive adoption.
Vista software sales have been soft as they were with XP and customers appear to buy begrudgingly at times. I'm sure that Microsoft will report great sales for Vista which is a bit misleading as they already sold OEM copies to each PC distributer prior to Vista's release. So overall Vista numbers should be good and individual Vista software sales I'm sure we'll hear little about.
OSX 10.5 should sell pretty well as Mac users were spoiled by OS releases almost yearly and this one will mark about a year and a half since the last major release. Apple will use 10.5 to push hardware sales but will benefit more from individual software sales of 10.5 as it will probably run on older hardware without updates whereas Vista needed some hardware upgrades to take full advantage of some of the 'cool' features.
Just my observations....
On the other hand, I have a new product it's called Air™, basically, I plan to sell people air, I'm expecting 100% sales lifts should any one be stupid enough to buy it..
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