Comments on: Amazon's Christmas bestsellers: Acer, Apple and Asus

By: ken, cedar rapids, ia

ken, cedar rapids, ia — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:45:42 +0000

The first notebook using Vista was way down at #18. Did Vista hurt all computer sales this year?

By: TimboM, Madison, WI

TimboM, Madison, WI — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:38:30 +0000

Who cares about whether or how much you can customize a Mac via online channels. I'm quite confident that Apple performs better than any Windows retailer over the long run because of the Windows-based PC price war. No one wins that battle, except for Apple.

Just wait until January 22nd. $1.80, at least.

By: Dan Brook, Boston, MA

Dan Brook, Boston, MA — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:02:31 +0000

Boneheads: You can both customize Macs (at Apple and most retailers) and you can buy them directly from Apple. I doubt anyone is going to regularly undercut their distributors, and certainly not Apple (though you can get deals there on refurbished Macs). You can buy an Apple online or from over 200 Apple owned stores, or any number of other authorized (online or brick & mortar) retailers.

By: iphonerulez, Brooklyn, New York

iphonerulez, Brooklyn, New York — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:04:45 +0000

Well, this does prove that people are still buying Mac computers, but it doesn't prove that they're buying them in quantity. At least all the money is going into one company, Apple, whereas the PCs are distributed over several companies. It still seems strange that Apple isn't making any money from selling computers and getting downgraded all to hell. If they weren't selling a fair number of computers, then why would they even make it into the top twenty.

I'm surprised that those HP Touch computers are sellng as well as they are. They seem pretty cool in concept, but I can't imagine I'd want to use that touch screen input a lot. I prefer using a mouse or a trackpad to minimize lots of arm movement since I've had minor shoulder problems.

Well, regardless of how many products Apple sells, the share price will continue to drop, so it really doesn't matter. Fundamentals have nothing to do with share price nowadays.

By: Hedged In, NYC, NY

Hedged In, NYC, NY — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:00:03 +0000

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By: andy,tx

andy,tx — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:37:34 +0000

Really, just sales figure of amazon does not represent the general marke.

For apple laptop, it's pre-configured, so you get it from the chapest place…which is not apple.com. Amazon has a pretty good price so they sell more. For the other brand like dell and hp, they discount heavily on their web site so no one else has better price than themselves…so most higher end laptop are sale through dell and hp themselves. Low end stuff, it's everywhere…it's pre-configured, you get from amazon…when you spend over a thousand dollar, you customize it…

won't buy pre-configure from amazon.

By: Frank, GA

Frank, GA — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:36:00 +0000

Craig- perhaps you've never been to apple.com, but there are plenty of customization options available… get off your high horse…

By: Turley Muller, Memphis

Turley Muller, Memphis — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:28:45 +0000

And how many of those have Vista? Probably just the Toshiba, other cheap laptops come with XP.

Hard to tell how much of the demand for cheap PCs is driven primarily by price, and not aided by XP. Low-powered machines still come with XP, but the $500 plus ship with Vista. I bet it's not just the economy causing the demand shift to low-dollar notebooks.

I read recently, for an extra $150 Dell will downgrade Vista to XP.

By: Craig, Chicago, IL

Craig, Chicago, IL — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:37:54 +0000

Of course the top sellers are Apples. Apples are not customized. You don't buy a pre-configured PC online. You go to the manufacturer's website and you tell them what you want. PC users demand their machines. Apple users are used to getting told what they want.

By: Wayne Seattle WA

Wayne Seattle WA — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:21:00 +0000

Amazon isn't where most would buy a computer. Apple does well there because there are limited places to buy Apple computers. Most people buy computers now directly from the manufactures which have far better deals than Amazon.