PC sales jump in February as Mac continues to decline

By on Mar 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Retail March 17, 2009

No, we’re not exactly out of the water just yet but growth in any market these days is definitely a diamond in the rough. The NPD Group released its February numbers yesterday and with both Apple and Microsoft still spending major ad dollars, PC and Mac computers saw remarkably different results. PC units sales jumped 22 percent year over year in February and revenue crept up 1.4 percent. In stark contrast, Mac unit sales were down a steep 16.7 percent and revenue dropped off a cliff, down 23.3 percent — this the month after Apple refreshed its laptop lineup, by the way. Ouch. Did Microsoft’s retaliatory “I’m a PC” ad campaign provide OEMs the adrenaline shot Microsoft was hoping for? Maybe. The simplest explanation is most often the correct explanation however, and February’s numbers likely boil down to dollars and cents. The average selling price of a PC in February was $555 while the average price of admission for a shiny new Mac was a whopping $1,500. In other words you can almost score three new PCs for the price of a Mac. Amidst a recession, the numbers speak for themselves.

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  • MiniMe

    @nefan65 – and you need to do all of that on a $1500 laptop? Geez, my Windows Mobile phone can do the same – connect to windows network, play music, rip CD’s/DVD’s, watch movies, run Office

    Let’s talk about real stuff – development (environments, databases, servers), real productivity – financial apps, real software – graphics does run faster on PC. Mac is a good choice if you confined to occasional Word document, some browsing and some monkeying with pictures – like a bored teenager or a housewife. For real work Mac is not very usable.

  • dev

    Obviously the comments made by both nefan65 and notapc shows who the real 40-year-old virgins are.

    Get a life. Stop borrowing money from your moms to make overpriced Mac purchases. Stop borrowing money from your moms to make overpriced Mac purchases in hopeless attempts to look ‘hip’.

    Get a life. Stop constantly posting ridiculous and useless comments to justify the borrowing of your parent’s money in an attempt to look hip and justify your stupid pointless spunking of money.

  • notapc

    @dev
    Awww did I offend the 40 year old virgin gamer nerd, who repeats stuff more then one cause he’s retarded. Again awww did I offend the 40 year virgin gamer nerd.

    FYI buddy I’m 23 got my own money and not a virgin. Unlike u I’m not depending on mommy by staying in her basement playing dungeons and dragons. So take ur PC stick up ur culo and shut the hell up. Or should I repeat myself cause ur too dumb to understand.

  • Kayne

    Why Apple sucks BIG TIME:

    1.) Apple lies! Apple is not immune to viruses!
    2.) Overpriced bullshit! Hell I can do 3d animations easily on my PC!
    3.) There’s too much HYPE!
    4.) Hardware isn’t upgradable!

    and I’d rather use Windows or linux!

  • http://www.techinsight.com Julius

    I definitely agree, apple computers are overpriced and not upgradable. There are so many things you can do with PC as supposed to Macs. There are for idiots that don’t want to think outside the box, just use it the way Apple sent it. I just hate the way they control people with their products. Their genius tech support sucks and the hardware is same as PC but it is put together by Apple that way so when it comes to performing any changes it just makes our live harder. Another thing is that there is this kind of “cool thinking” when you using a Mac – why because it is a Mac so you have to be cool. It is just more like a trend now. People just want a little apple logo on their laptops. Security, Macs are not even close to Vista security and now Windows 7 has Vista’s security level and killer performance for instance Windows 7 64-bit with 8GM RAM, Mac is not even close. Now if I need some shell power I just fire up my Linux (on my Windows) and Mr. Mac is hacked within minutes!!!!!

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