Not only was it the best Macintosh quarter in Apple's 30-year history, but a little more than half of the 323,000 computers sold in Apple's retail stores during the period were to people who had never owned a Mac before, Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said during an analyst conference call. "We were thrilled by that," he said.

I mentioned the other day about how Notebook computers is an area where I feel that Apple needs more choices, that was confirmed again today when I went out looking for a new Windows Notebook for my father in law. I was drawn to the Sony Viao laptops which, by the way, look very Mac like. Very affordable also, just that darn problem about them running Windows and not OS X... But as I was looking at the many notebooks, they have then in 14" and under screens, 15", 17" - all for similar prices to the MacBook, and then they came in many different preconfigured varieties - and that was just Sony, there were many others as well. I'm not down on Mac Notebooks, I think they're great, but I also don't think that Apple should force people to buy a MacBookPro if they would like a 15" or 17" notebook. Keep the Pro line for the heavy duty user, give the more casual and maybe more price sensitive Mac user more options, I guarantee they will sell well. Don't forget about that 12" MacBookPro Ultra Portable too. My offer still stands to beta test it.

Out for now.


-Ed

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