Neil HughesSenior Research Analyst Gene Munster believes the sales will bring Apple an additional $66 million in operating revenue during the quarter. However, he believes those totals are already "baked in" to Wall Street's own numbers, given that the sales window and $29 price of Snow Leopard were already known earlier this summer. The $66 million in income would amount to 5 cents in earnings per share for the quarter.
The $29 price point is designed to put a dent in sales of Microsoft Windows. He said the finely tuned operating system upgrade will be used to portray the Mac platform as superior to Windows machines.
"The release of Snow Leopard is not about new features; rather, it is about keeping Mac users up to date with the latest technology vs. Windows XP and Vista users on antiquated technology in our opinion," the note reads.
Munster believes that Snow Leopard has an advantage over Windows because it comes with support for Microsoft Exchange built in. Out of the box, Snow Leopard machines will support Exchange for e-mail, contacts and calendars, and the overall system will run faster when compared to Leopard.
The new note estimates that there is a OS X install base of over 40 million. For comparison, Apple sold 2 million copies of Leopard in 4 days to a install base of about 23 million OS X users in October of 2007. For that launch, Apple sold a total of 3.5 million copies for the quarter. At that time, customer satisfaction with Leopard was said to be driving explosive Mac sales.
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I just ordered a family pack, which will probably be counted as 5 copies even though I'll only install on three.
Sheldon
OK..... this will ruffle a few feathers.
But, on behalf of us lay folks, can someone explain what is so hot about 10.6 (other than setting up for future HW/SW developments, smaller footprint, and a few eye-candy enhancements)? I am not saying improvements are not welcome, but I am just failing to see the great leap forward.......
OK..... this will ruffle a few feathers.
But, on behalf of us lay folks, can someone explain what is so hot about 10.6 (other than setting up for future HW/SW developments, smaller footprint, and a few eye-candy enhancements)? I am not saying improvements are not welcome, but I am just failing to see the great leap forward.......
64 bit.
OK..... this will ruffle a few feathers.
But, on behalf of us lay folks, can someone explain what is so hot about 10.6 (other than setting up for future HW/SW developments, smaller footprint, and a few eye-candy enhancements)? I am not saying improvements are not welcome, but I am just failing to see the great leap forward.......
I have been running the beta for months now. I can report that it is much faster, network connect on my laptop happens almost prior to me getting the cover fully open, and the new expose feature that groups windows when you hold down the app icon is a real time saver.
And while I don't have empirical data, I have noticed that my machine has stopped paging, ever, while on regular leopard it would occasionally. This seems to indicate that Snow Leopard is more efficient with memory.
I have been running the beta for months now. I can report that it is much faster, network connect on my laptop happens almost prior to me getting the cover fully open, and the new expose feature that groups windows when you hold down the app icon is a real time saver.
And while I don't have empirical data, I have noticed that my machine has stopped paging, ever, while on regular leopard it would occasionally. This seems to indicate that Snow Leopard is more efficient with memory.
And it it really worth the upgrade?
is safari faster?
Bootup time, is it faster?
does your pc Think a lot(rainbow cirlce)
is iphone and moblie me synching better?
Please reply
Thanks :-)