The family of simple, light Airs introduced by Apple MacBook late last year are a hit with consumers who demand combined shipments of more than 1 million new laptops during the fourth quarter of last year.
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told AppleInsider that controls its latest show in Asia, Apple has sold a total of 1.1 million of its 11 - and 13-inch MacBook Airs during the three months ending December, This makes the new breed of ultra-thin portable one of the biggest success of the company product launches Mac ever.
These figures are about 63% higher, or 400,000 units more than the 700,000 units that Kuo had originally estimated. The figures also support an application earlier by AppleInsider that the new MacBook Airs quickly grew to include more than one workbook the third largest manufacturer of Mac in the fourth quarter, sales at a ratio of 1 to 2 at the Lighthouse Company offers MacBook Pro.
For example, Apple does not break down your Mac or device sales by product for competitive reasons, said it shipped a little over 2.9 million notebooks during the fourth quarter 2010. At 1.1 million units, the new MacBook Airs acquiring a 40% corporate mobile society and represented a little over a quarter of its Mac Business Unit as a whole.
MacBook Airs sales remain strong during the quarter, but followed a decline of about 40% compared to levels observed in their neighborhood as an introduction to a little under 700,000 units, according to Kuo. However, he believes the Cupertino-based can still set a new record for Mac sales in the quarter with strong sales of its new MacBook Pro more than offset the decline in units of MacBook Air.
In particular, he said, discussions with suppliers indicate that Apple plans construction of society call for the production of over 4.5 million Macs during the three months ending in March. At these prices, Apple is likely to stand out as the PC vendor worldwide that display significant growth on a quarter to quarter, "he added.
Strong sales of the new MacBook Airs will serve to strengthen claims that the design of new phones can be considered a harbinger of the future direction of Apple's notebook families of others who are also expected to adopt small footprints and to lay the old technology - such as disk drives and optical - for the second half of 2012.