Apple has continued their growth with iPod and Mac sales in February growing 43% year on year.
Analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray issued a note to investors Monday afternoon detailing the latest retail sales data from the NPD Group. Mac sales in the month of February were up 43 percent for the month, which followed a similarly strong January increase of 36 percent. In all, Mac sales for the first two months of 2010 are up 39 percent year over year.
The latest retail data suggests that Apple will sell between 2.8 million and 2.9 million Macs in the March quarter, which is above Wall Street’s consensus of 2.7 million Macs.
Strong Mac sales were accompanied by better-than-expected iPod sales as well, influencing Munster to call February an “impressive” month for Apple. iPod sales in the first two months of 2010 were up 7 percent, an increase in sales for the first time in over a year.
Not sure how many of you have been robbed out there. Perhaps your car, your home, your person, but if you have, then you know the traumatic experience of feeling violated. It’s this raw emotion that someone violated your personal space. Now for some of us, depending on what they took, it might take us longer than others to get past it. But how many of us actually remain in a constant state of paranoia?
It appears that the designers of this little product for Mac Book Pros has not gotten past their loss because they created the BookBook. The BookBook, retailing for $80, is a supposed crafty way of deterring thieves from taking your Mac Book when you’re not home. Creating a facade that to the untrained eye looks like a stack of random books, in actuality it’s a sneaky case where you’ve stored your Mac Book Pro for safe keeping.
Put it away, or use the elastic corner wraps to secure your Mac Book while you use it inside the case, either way if perfectly functional. The distressing and such is customizable to the person making the purchase, but how many of us have books like this on our bookshelf. I feel like I need another set of books that I can pull on to reveal a hidden room behind the bookshelf.
In either case, if you like this style of pulling a ruse on would be thieves, then take the plunge and pick one up. Personally I’d like to know if it comes heavily cushioned inside so that when thieves clear out my books to the floor my Mac Book Pro will remain safe and secure…just saying.
MacBooks are just so much sexier than PCs, but there are still several places in which the Mac is behind the PC. The main one for me is the lack of speakers. Im a huge music fan and I just have to be listening to music when Im using a computer.
While tinny little laptop speakers can serve fine for belting out mediocre mids and highs, they just aren’t powerful enough to drive those low frequency waves to your drums.
Enter the new BassJump. The BassJump provides a great depth to your music that normal laptop and desktop speakers just cant provide.
Software separates the incoming frequencies, ensuring that mids and lows are delivered to your BassJump. Everything higher is handled by your regular speakers.
While any speaker system could provide similar gains, this one is designed to blend seamlessly with your Mac and it’s fully portable. So if you’re one of those shallow bastards who’s all about looks, it’s available now for $80. [BassJump via Dvice]
As im sure most people are aware, Apple released new products yesterday and here at Crenk I wanted to just quickly run through them. RAck. r
Magic Mouse
Here it is: the new Magic Mouse, a single button mouse (with a software-controlled right click option) and a touch sensitive top surface that allows you to touch the mouse to pinch, scroll, and drag, just like a trackpad. The mouse uses two AA batteries and lasts 4 months on one change.
It costs $69 and is available at the end of October.
iMac
Fastest iMac yet. Big LEDC-backlit displays in 21,5 and 27 Inch 16:9 aspect ration. Wireless keyboard and mouse standard (check that mouse!). Fastest iMac yet. No surprise there.
The New Macbook
The new MacBook has a durable unibody enclosure (aluminum or plastic?), 1,08 inch thin, light at just 4.7 pounds, 7 hour battery. 13 inch LED backlit display and glass multi-touch display.
The New Mac Mini
up to 2,66Ghz with up to 4GB memory. Faster than ever. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor for graphics and Wi-Fi built in. Optional 500GB hardisk.
Apple is a company that always seems to have a lot of rumours about their upcoming product launches. Here is a new one to add to the group, the Apple Macbook Touch. Some sources claim that
Apple is planning to launch the new Macbook on an event that is to be held on October 14. At this stage there is no official word that is actually a reality, but I think that this is definitely a product that will soon be launched.
There are other sites who have already reported on this rumour, including Gizmodo and Sizlopedia. As Sizlopedia mentioned, I doubt however Apple will launch a revolutionary new product at such a small gathering, when they have Macworld Expo 2009 not so far away.
Since the introduction of the Macbook Air at MacWorld a week or so ago, there has been a lot of talk around the blogosphere about this new exciting product. I just thought I would write a very quick article and let everyone know that this revolutionary product will be available in the Apple Stores in the USA on Wednesday.
The guys over at TUAW mentioned that the Air might be cleverly disguised as stacks of interoffice mail, no doubt.
