Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Chad Irby
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:32

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Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
: 
: Who said there would be 40 million?  The most optimistic was
: Dataquest, who stated 30 million _shipped_, 20 million _sold_. 

Nope- they said 30 million _sold_.  Even the most pessimistic 
prediction from the "experts" was on the order of 16 million.  Hell, even 
Sangria was more optimistic than to predict 7 million...

: The 7 million figure is about two months worth of sales- not 1995.

Nope.  The 7 million was for August-December.  Actually, they sold more 
like 10 million, but three million were returned.  And not everyone  
believes that all of those 7 million were actually kept in use.  I know
that most of the companies I've dealt with that have bought new  
computers format the hard drive first and install Windows 3.1 instead  of 
W95...

: They were all sell-throughs.

Nope.  About four million of the 7 million were preloads.  So only about 
three million people actually *bought* Windows 95...

-- 

Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."

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Date: 17 Jan 1996 11:32:22 -0500
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